Am 24.01.2012 14:27, schrieb Mike Gabriel: > Hi Petter, > > On Di 24 Jan 2012 13:16:43 CET Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > >> I've discovered a problem with our new backbone network setup. Trying >> to configure a Linksys Wireless-G broadband router to use 10.0.0.8/8 >> is impossible. Its default firmware can not handle less than /24. It >> provide /24, /25, /27, etc. but not /8. I suspect this is the case >> with other consumer broadband routers too. >> >> Should we care? This make it harder to test the full Skolelinux setup >> with common hardware. :( > > Sounds like a crap firmware to me... > > I would no care. I have never encountered that with other devices. But I > am no hardware specialist... > > Mike > > Hi!
I had the same issue some years ago with a D-Link printserver. D-Link-hotline told something like "Our printserver is designed for home-networks. So other masks then 24-bit are not needed". For linksys -routers i guess there should be the possibility to flash something like openWRT > https://openwrt.org/ freeWRT > http://freewrt.org dd-wrt > http://www.dd-wrt.com ReadU Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
