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On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 06:31:44PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote |
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> However, I would wait until the new modem arrives as most do allow |
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> you to turn off DHCP for the LAN and the information you have may |
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> only apply to the WAN connection. |
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On their support board, the ISP's tech support told me... |
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a) My computer or router needs to be configured to get the IP |
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automatically by DHCP to get the connection up and running. |
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b) The TC4400 is a cable modem without any router capabilities, so |
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there are no wifi antennas on the device. (This was in response |
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to my question about turning off wifi.) |
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A Google search turned up a default config webpage and userID and |
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password for the TC4400. If that doesn't work, I'll look into getting |
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a NAT-ing router that can get a dhcp IP address. The plan would be... |
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* The cable modem would connect to the internet and pass an address |
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via dhcp to the router. |
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* The router would treat the dhcp-assigned address from the cable modem |
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as "the internet" and expose 192.168.0.0/16 to my computers, which |
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would allow my home computers to use static IP addresses as before. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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