[plug] dlink dsl-300

Daniel Pearson gpearson at iinet.net.au
Thu Dec 4 14:24:06 WST 2003


> 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.
Because it doesn't have router functions.. you can't do NAT on the modem,
you need software to do the NAT, regardless of whether you use the PPPoE
client on the modem or not.

Cheers,
Daniel




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