[plug] dlink dsl-300

[Daniel Pearson]

IIRC from when I had one, you *cannot* plug it into a hub, and access it
that way - it *has* to run through a computer. Solution? Buy a Billion
Router, which you can now get *very* cheaply *g* ;-)

Cheers,
Daniel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Onno Benschop" <onno at itmaze.com.au>
To: "PLUG" <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] dlink dsl-300


> 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 - that is also setup as the
> gateway, likely with an aliased IP address, then still plug the modem
> and the other computers into the hub. As long as the other computers use
> the gateway computer as their gateway.
>
> (I know this is true, because that is *exactly* how my satellite modem
> is setup...)
>
>
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