[plug] dlink dsl-300

[Onno Benschop]

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 16:56, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> 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).

Uhm, security issues aside, I don't see why you cannot run the modem on
a hub if it runs the PPPoE client itself, the setup is identical, the
DHCP server on the modem serves the gateway computer, the rest of the
machines with static local addresses will still talk to the gateway
computer.

I *know* this works - I've done it both ways with my sat-modem.


Onno Benschop 

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