[wplug] dsl setup

[Bill Moran]

Carl Benedict <cbenedic at pittsburghtechs.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 08:56 -0400, Greg Simkins wrote:
> > A little cheap Linksys router should be all you need.  It works for me.
> > 
> > I worked on a Verizon DSL connection for a lady in Lebanon, PA.  I was 
> > surprised that they issued her a nonroutable 192.168.1.0 address.  If you 
> > don't need to serve anything, that should work fine.
> > 
> > Greg
> 
> This is because they ship you a router/modem combo which does DHCP for
> your LAN by default.  You aren't going to connect to the 'net without a
> real routable IP.  The outside gets its own routable IP via DHCP as
> well.  

Not entirely true.

I have seen some providers who issue you a private IP, then do NAT on their
routers.  This is getting pretty uncommon, but it does still happen sometimes.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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