<div dir="ltr">On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:06 PM, unsolicited <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca" target="_blank">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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Rogers provide me with modems that have WiFi in them. My current one is the second such one. I just disable the residential gateway
feature, so the modem is just a modem.<br>
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I don't much like using a provider's box - mind you I rent. PITA when it
has to be returned. What were those settings ... again? Let alone, the
provider will be able to read the configuration. Which, I assume,<br>
includes passwords and wi-fi settings.<br>
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Khalid, your wi-fi still works this way? When I put mine into bridged<br>
mode, all functionality but being a (one IP) modem stopped. (Not that I
wanted its wi-fi.)</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I disable WiFi on Rogers' modem, with all home routing stuff, and use WiFi off my router. <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div class="">On 14-05-18 12:43 PM, Charles M wrote:<br>
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Our wireless router does the dialing for the DSL (our DSL modem is
in bridged mode), is our DHCP server for computers on the LAN and
WLAN.<br>
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I used to do this too. Wanting more DHCP flexibility one day (e.g.<br>
larger statically assigned ip address pool) I broke down and figured out
the isc dhcp server on my kubuntu box. The advantage since has been, new
box, copy files, go. No manual re-entry at each new router change. Worth
your time (if you have one, or two, non-mobile devices in your place).<br>
And to change, pop into vi, restart service, get on with your day. No<br>
popping into the router web interface or restarting the device and thus
the entire network. (Higher WAF!) Bonus - can play with (win)bind / try
and make Win happier at DHCP request.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Having a PC on all the time wastes energy, and it is more failure prone with moving parts (fans, disks, ...etc.). A tiny always on low power all solid state device such as an OpenWRT device is more suitable for this.<br>
<br></div><div>You can definitely copy your old DHCP configuration from OpenWRT to OpenWRT without having to go through <br><br></div><div class="">Just copy all the stanzas of "config host" from /etc/config/dhcp, and you have all your home network.<br>
<br>Example:<br><br>config host <br> option name 'first-laptop' <br> option mac 'f4:b7:zz:zz:zz:zz' <br> option ip '192.168.0.111' <br>
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