After a long summer of no internet in the house, I’m finally waiting for the Time-Warner cable guy to get here. I started setting up the network so that I can pretty much just plug it in and have it be just like home again. Here’s a diagram of how i’m actually posting this. (yay, Visio)
I’m NAT’d at least three times between the cable box and my laptop. The packet passes through whatever proprietary OS the neighbor’s wireless is running, OSX (Internet Sharing, ftw), Linux/iptables, Libux/whatever DD-WRT uses, and finally through the WinXP network stack. I’m not sure whether my living room is an abomination or a miracle.