[plug] dlink dsl-300

[Onno Benschop]

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 17:24, 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.

Hence my referral to a "gateway" computer, which has an aliased IP
address - it does the NAT, the modem just gets more packets...


Onno Benschop 

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