On Sun, 4 Oct 2020 21:47:53 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > On their support board, the ISP's tech support told me... > > a) My computer or router needs to be configured to get the IP > automatically by DHCP to get the connection up and running. > > b) The TC4400 is a cable modem without any router capabilities, so > there are no wifi antennas on the device. (This was in response > to my question about turning off wifi.) > > A Google search turned up a default config webpage and userID and > password for the TC4400. If that doesn't work, I'll look into getting > a NAT-ing router that can get a dhcp IP address. The plan would be... >
Just about any router will do that, it's usually the default behaviour. > * The cable modem would connect to the internet and pass an address > via dhcp to the router. > > * The router would treat the dhcp-assigned address from the cable modem > as "the internet" and expose 192.168.0.0/16 to my computers, which > would allow my home computers to use static IP addresses as before. > I have a Virgin cablemodem that I have switched into modem-only mode, so it behaves similarly to your device, and plugged it into the router. It gives a setup like you want, except I chose to use DHCP for simplicity of administration. -- Neil Bothwick The truth shall make you free, but first it shall piss you off.
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