Ok I am getting my first cobalt. It is a Raq3 w/Raq4 software installed it will be here friday. For now I would like to use it for an internal office server but capable of being seen over the internet as well.

Here is what I have. Is it possible?
Cable Internet No static IP but the IP has been the same for a year
Linksys Router, I can assign internal IP's

I am under the impression you must assign the cobalt an IP. Ok Can I get it to work with Cable. Can i assign a internal IP and specify the router to find a port to link to the Cobalt.

Is there any good ONLINE resources that may tell about what I am wanting to do.

If you have a "virtual" static IP courtesy of a lazy cable provider, enter that IP address, netmask, and gateway info on the RaQ and the RaQ will work fine as long as the IP remains valid.

It's somewhat of a catch-22 though as you won't then be requesting the info via dhcp, so the lease will expire faster on CableCo's DHCP server than if you continued to use dhcp to get the IP somehow.

Another possibility - if you will only be "hosting" a single domain, you can install the Qube 3 "Business" CD on a RaQ 3, which does have support for DHCP, built-in NAT, and all sorts of other goodies.

Get the OS Restore CD ISO image at ftp://ftp.cobalt.sun.com/pub/iso - check the README file to make sure you get the proper image.

Well I have half the problem solved. I ordered a 1.5M SDSL Line with 14 IP's. 14 IP's is probably a over kill. The free business class router has 4 ports. So in guess I will be able to assign 4 PC static IP's until I get a switch.

Just FYI, if you stayed on the cable service, you could have setup your Linksys router for DHCP service as it's intended to be used, then assigned the RaQ an internal IP, like 192.168.1.10... then in the Linksys config, setup the .10 IP to be in the firewall's DMZ. Works like a charm - external requests to your semi-static IP would be directed to the RaQ.

For additional protection, you could also use the port forwarding feature of the Linksys, and for example just open up 21,25,80,81,110,443 and anything else you needed as required. That will work as well.

Good luck.

Brandon

Whow slow down 14 ip addresses.. read up a little more on what the raq does you should be fine with a 4 port router... to handle your internal network.