DSL Sharing Question

[sammy g]

I live on an offcampus college house with 5 other people and we are going to share a single DSL line with 1 i.p. I plan on using a hardware router to share the connection/i.p. across the 6 computers. My question is what is the necessary configuration for the computers? Do I need to set them up to share the ip or does the router do it automatically?
thanks
sam

 

[jmcoreymv]

If you use the default setup, just tell all the computers to obtain an ip automatically. Otherwise if one of you wants to host something, it gets a tad more complicated, but not much.

 

[spencer]

<< Do I need to set them up to share the ip or does the router do it automatically? >>



The router does it automatically. You can use DHCP to assign each computer an IP or you can set up each computer manually which is what I would recommend since you will more than likely need to forward certain ports to certain computers which is a pain if you use DHCP. These are the instructions for setting up the computers manually when using the Linksys router but should be the same or atleast similar for all routers.
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/support/linksys_router_help.htm#manual_IP