[plug] dlink dsl-300

[Cameron Patrick]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 02:24:06PM +0800, Daniel Pearson wrote:
| > 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.

Yup, but as Onno said, the NAT box, the modem, and the rest of the LAN
can all be on the same network segment so long as there's no other DHCP
server running and the other clients have their network settings given
"by hand".

Cameron.