On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Michael Hennebry hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
Why do you want to connect the two computers like this? It is usually more trouble than it's worth unless you want to use the first computer as a firewall or something. Just connect both of them to your router and everything should work fine.
I don't know that I do. I've not done anything with a router since connecting my old computer to CenturyLink's router/modem.
I want the second computer to not have its own global IP address. It will at least occasionally run Windows. I'd prefer not to assume that Windows will not try to fetch an IP address behind my back.
Routers and modems from ISPs are sometimes different things and sometimes integrated. If you are getting a public IP on your first computer you either just have a modem, or if it is is also a router it is running in bridged mode. You can add a separate router ahead of both computers. To make things more complicated there are also some combo devices where the router side can split bridged/NAT mode to supply both some number of static public IPs and a private subnet (but if you had one of those you would probably know it).