Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Peter Horst wrote:
>
> I have 4 addresses total, 66.92.blah.blah. My setup, until the Linksys
> broke, was (from "outside" to "inside"):
>
> ADSL modem
> Linksys (connected to the DSL not via its "WAN" port, but via one of its
> "LAN" ports)
> Windows Laptop (66.92.blah.bleh) - Linux "server" (66.92.bleh.blah)
>
> That's it - pretty simple setup - the only wrinkle was the bit about the
> Linksys not running NAT or DHCP, but just passing the traffic through to
> the "internal" devices.
>
> Thank you - as a last-second thought, it occurs to me that I might be
> able to connect the Server directly to the DSL modem, then connect the
> Zyxel to that - it's not really important to me that the laptop have its
> own address.
>
> Peter
>
Does the Zyxel have an option to turn off its DHCP server? If so,
you could use the same setup as you were using with the Linksys.
Turning on or off NAT should not be a problem, because that is
normally only between the WAN port the the rest of the network. It
should have no affect on the machines connected on the LAN side in
this case.
Mikkel
It does have an option to turn off the DHCP server - problem is, when I
connect the Zyxel in the same way that I used to connect the Linksys, it
exhibits odd, dysfunctional behavior, viz. it only works with one of my
two machines. I can connect one other machine, either wirelessly or
wired, but when I plug in the second, I suddenly lose the ability on the
first to find my DNS servers. I guess I should do more testing - that's
not a very precise error report...
