[SWLUG] Re: Giving up Windows

[Steve Hill]

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On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Foeh Mannay wrote:

> doesn't do any form of bridge mode, so you can't use it if you have a
> snazzy ISP that allows you more than one IP.

You mean it forces you to do NAT?  That's quite horrible.  I have a Dlink 
DSL504 (wired) DSL router which does an ok job, although you can't get 
them anymore - they were replaced with the 504t which is completely 
different hardware with completely different (and very buggy) firmware.
The 504 will run with both NAT turned on or off so either you have a 
single IP from your ISP and have your computers on private IP addresses 
letting the router do NAT, or you have an IP subnet from the ISP and give 
your machines real IP addresses (this is what I do).

One thing that really bugs me though is that as far as I can tell, noone 
does a DSL device that does *bridging* (instead of routing) when running 
in PPPoA mode, which you have to do in the UK.  If I have a single machine 
plugged into the router and my ISP gave me a single IP address I would 
want the DSL router to do bridging so that my real IP address could go on 
the machine instead of the router.  It's not impossible to do, but noone 
seems to have done it yet so if you want a real IP address on your 
computer then you have to get a small subnet which seems a bit wasteful.

Oh, also none of the routers support native IPv6 which seems a little 
shortsighted - mind you by the time IPv6 goes mainstream we'll all have 
multi-terabit fibre connections to our homes. :)

  - Steve       Jabber: steve at nexusuk.org     Web: http://www.nexusuk.org/

      Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence

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