[PLUG] Re: Just trying to ping my DSL modem

[Tom Diehl <tdiehl@rogueind.com>]

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Doug Crompton wrote:

> I have been using DCAnet with Verizon here for the last year and it has
> worked well. They DHCP to a MAC address (the hardware ethernet address of
> a device). I decided to use a router rather then a computer as the
> front-end. I have found this to work well. I use a linksys cable/dsl four
> port wired router. It does the DHCP (to it's MAC address) with DCAnet. I
> then have a 192.168.x.x local network. If I have to change the router (I
> have) you simply clone the MAC address that you originally gave DCAnet
> into the device. Doing it this way you have no down time. You could also
> contact DCAnet and update your MAC address, which would take some time. I
> have never done anything with my DSL modem. I just plugged it in and it
> worked. Firewalling is done for the most part at the router. All ports are
> blocked that are not used. All computers on the network access the
> Internet directly thru the router. My server is port forwarded from the
> router.
>
> You could of course do this with/thru a linux front-end. In that case the
> linux box would DHCP thru one ethernet port to the modem. It's MAC address
> would have to match the one given to DCAnet.
>
> With DCAnet You can also setup additional IP's - up to six - with more MAC
> addresses. They could be bridged off the modem with an additional router
> or computer depending on how you chose to do it.

Just out of curiosity, what happens with DCAnet if you have 1 MAC address and
you want to assign multiple ip addresses to it? Does this config work??

Regards,

Tom
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