[plug] dlink dsl-300

[Onno Benschop]

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 17:29, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> 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".

It gets even more evil...

My modem is a DHCP server and my Linux box is one too. Because the modem
is always slower in responding to DHCP requests, the Linux box "wins",
so I do in fact have a really evil setup, where there are two DHCP
servers on the network...

I'm *not* suggesting that this will work for everyone!


Onno Benschop 

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