[plug] dlink dsl-300

[Daniel Pearson]

Sounds tricky  ;-)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Onno Benschop" <onno at itmaze.com.au>
To: "PLUG" <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] dlink dsl-300


> 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!
>
>
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