On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 11:00 PM, Robert Ameeti wrote: > A hub does not add or subtract IP addresses. It just allows multiple > devices to attach to a network. > > A router can typically be configured to create and assign private IP > addresses so as to allow 1 public address to then be used by many > computers, each of which would be given one of the private IP > addresses that the router then 'routed'. > > You didn't ask, but a hub and a switch do the same thing except that a > switch allows for faster routing of data due to its intelligence. I just know that all my computers have a unique IP address. And when I see the 192, file sharing is a bust. :-)