On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: Carl Alexander [mailto:[email protected]] >> >> Um. I can only assume from this that your friend is renting his >> router from Comcast, rather than using one of his own? Because >> the normal thing for computer-proficient people to do is to >> buy a WRT54GL and run their NAT off that. Which will happily > > So, you buy your own cable modem? Last I checked, you couldn't connect a > Coax to a WRT54G. Other than that ... The coax comes into the house, > connects to this comcast supplied router, which has a wifi antenna and some > wired data ports... Serves up 5 IP addresses. It's got a public IP on the > coax side, and that's it. > > Maybe you have to specify, "I want a dumb cable modem so I can run my own > router" so they don't give you a crippled router cable modem?
FWIW, I've seen cable modems (motorola SB5xxx series comes to mind) give out 192.168.0.0/24 addresses when they didn't receive a WAN address. This allows you to access the cable modem's information page. I think that if you eventually did get a WAN address it would just continue to masquerade. This was all several years ago though and my memory could be foggy. Return the mixed modem/gateway combo and ask for a standard (motorola/atlanta scientific(i think?)/whatever) cable modem. Or, return the gateway and pick up any DOCSIS-compatable cable modem (some providers have lists of modems that they prefer you purchase). _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
