[plug] dlink dsl-300

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Thu Dec 4 13:56:51 WST 2003


On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 04:42:57PM +1100, Onno Benschop wrote:
| On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 16:23, Cameron Patrick wrote:
| > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 04:16:45PM +1100, russ wrote:
| > 
| > | I have a dlink dsl-300 modem supplied by iinet for my adsl. I'm curious if this
| > | can just be plugged into my hub and accessed across my lan?
| > 
| > Not if there's more than one machine on the LAN and you're using the
| > PPPoE client (and DHCP server) on the modem.
| 
| Well that is not strictly true...
| 
| You can run a PPPeE client on one machine

Which is why I said "not if you're using the PPPoE client on the modem".
If you set up the modem in bridged mode and run PPPoE on the gateway it
should work, modulo potential security issues that have been mentioned
before on the list (by Craig Ringer IIRC).

Cameron.




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