where is the DHCP server?

Your best bet is to go to your nearest electronics store Sunday that has a sale on a Netgear or Linksys router and buy one (should be $30 or less).

If you think you'll ever need wireless than get a wireless G router with

Here's the password to access your status pages on a TJ715 (not sure what actual model you will have): icu4at!

Here are the pages you can access on a TJ715:

Main http://192.168.100.1/mainPageTroubleshoot http://192.168.100.1/modemTroubleshootPageConnection http://192.168.100.1/modemRfPageAdvanced Links Event Log http://192.168.100.1/modemLogPageStatus http://192.168.100.1/modemStatusPageDS Freq http://192.168.100.1/modemDsFreqPageConfiguration http://192.168.100.1/modemConfigPageLogout http://192.168.100.1/logout

dhcp serer.

routable. ISP DHCP server hands out ip address. Cable modem gets it's address and your computer gets it's address.

Here a lease packet on my linux box.

lease { interface "eth1"; fixed-address 24.1.202.185;

The DHCP server is at the ISP. Also, if your modem is like mine, it provides a DHCP server, only when disconnected from the ISP.

Thank you B, BT and JK, it's clear now.

All IPs are routable. Some are supposed to be blocked from the internet.

A server on the ISP side (unless the cable modem isn't attached to a live cable system, in which case the modem will assign a temporary IP address).

That depends on your cable company. Most use routable addresses, but some use private addresses and NAT.

As above, the IP addresses are assigned by the ISP. Some ISPs won't assign more than one IP addresses per cable modem unless you pay an additional fee. Many allow two or three. There used to be a few that allowed four, but I don't know if they still do or not. I've never heard of anyone allowing more than four without additional fees.

-Larry Jones

I don't need to do a better job. I need better P.R. on the job I DO.

-- Calvin

James Knott wrote in news:ztmdnay-At0A9gbeRVn- snipped-for-privacy@rogers.com:

Or for your internal private network ... some cable modems have a router built in too.

Indeed. I was using the OP's terminology but I should have said something like "publicly routable", instead.

-Larry Jones

I hate it when they look at me that way. -- Calvin