On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:24 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > I see, so the D-ling is the switch that just about everything gets > plugged into. Now that I've taken a second look at the diagramme on the > back of the D-Link box it shows that the modem, in your suggested case, > the router/modem is plugged into the back of the D-Link. I surmise that > anything with an ethernet card or indeed another router-modem just plugs > into the D-Link and away you should in theory go.
The only possible caveat to this is that many of the router/modem combos that are offerred now (including the one I currently use for DSL) perform many of the same functions as a DSL router, or your Dlink switch. Meaning, they do DHCP to attached devices, network address translation, etc. You don't really want to have two routers, both doing Network Address Translation for each other. One needs to be a simple bridge. So, you may need to hook up the router/modem directly to your computer to start, use the web browser or whatever to access the router/modem and configure it as a simple bridge, then hook the Dlink device up. You might keep that in mind, because with NAT, you can't directly access the modem in most cases because it will be sitting on a non-routeable address so you have to be on the same non-routeable netmask and a second router won't send packets to the modem. More details available about that if you are interested. > Then onn your OS merely MCC and let it detect the devices . Then because > the router modem has dhcp it configures all the dificult IP stuff for > you. That would be nice indeed. Yes, with added protection to the devices that sit behind the hardware device, of course. -- Bryan Phinney
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