On Wednesday, February 2, 2005, at 11:48 AM, Richard Meyeroff wrote: >> Is it necessary to have the DSL modem assume the computer's address? > > It does it automatically and it is not the IP address but the MAC > Address > > >> I do not have DSL yet but will be using an Airport Extreme and am >> paying close attention to all of this. > > I'm not sure? > > Huh? In my system I have two machines a router and a cable modem.I use DHCP. So, the router gets the address from the IP and then assigns two other addresses to my two computers. J