Re: Resolved (was: Re: OT: Using my (new) cable based ISP with their modem in bridge mode and my existing router)

[songbird]

rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
...
> ...  Sometimes I feel 
> like an idiot.
>
> All seems well.

  :)

  i've had days like that...  glad you figured it out.

  completely OT from your issue, but today i finally upgraded
my stable partition from whatever it was on (last major update
was probably a year or more ago).

  glad to say that with a bit of heavy hammer hitting i got it
all to update and than as usual it did the os-prober at the
end which was ok, but since my /boot partition on that setup
did not have the right efi/EFI/ it was not able to
immediately switch into my refind menu like i am used to doing
(because i did not install refind on my stable partition).
so of course i go off to do that and then at the end it asks
about putting stuff on my efi partition and i say yes and then
a second later i'm wondering if i just overwrote my refind
configuration file.  after a bit of nosing around i could
breath a bit better because no it did not destroy my config
so i was all set.  so you are not the only one here who can
mess up something.  :)


  songbird

Resolved (was: Re: OT: Using my (new) cable based ISP with their modem in bridge mode and my existing router)

[rhkramer]

Intentionally top posting:

Thanks to all who replied, I got the Arris DG2470A modem (/ router) working in 
bridge mode with my existing router (Ubiquiti Edge Router X).

I made a dumb mistake -- I had my router and another computer plugged into the 
Arris (I used the other computer to configure the Arris), and then I switched 
to bridge mode.  At least once I noticed that I could ping the Internet from 
that other computer, which meant that the Arris was in bridge mode, but that 
computer was using the Arris modem instead of my router.

Since then, I've done better -- e.g., configured the Arris to bridge mode, then 
powered down the Arris, unplugged that other computer, plugged in my Ubiquiti 
router and configured it to connect to the WAN by DHCP.

Aside: In my previous (DSL) installation, the modem was a modem only, and had 
only one place to connect an Ethernet cable.  With the Arris, being a router 
as well as a modem, it had 4 places to plug in an Ethernet cable, and, without 
thinking about it, I plugged in two devices (a computer and the Ubiquiti), 
but, in bridge mode, only one of those was going to work.  Sometimes I feel 
like an idiot.

All seems well.


On Friday, April 28, 2023 11:08:45 PM David Wright wrote:

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