Aneurin Price wrote: Sorry for not answering exactly your question, but at some point it got too long for me.
Read about rtlinux. Why do you need this router? I think the modem can provide you more then 1 IP. I think great things are simple, so I would just remove the router, or configure it to be just a hub. Anyway. If you want to replace it with a debian system there are great small devices now for about 100+ € - I mean mini and micro mainboards or pcs. I use one from acrosser with geode CPU and installed I've debian on a flash card 4GB or USB stick 256MB. both can run the router and it has never failed for about 4 years. so I don't understand why you should run the dhcp/dns server on both ... both of them must be configured properly. besides the router can have a modem but it is not likely that the modem is connected to the first modem. It would be the case if your provider has some kind of strange configuration ... and in this case you would need both. the answer here is My problem lies in that I can't understand how the connection between the router and the modem is actually working. The beginning of my confusion is that these machines both claim to have the same external IP address. they could be configured to take the mac address and obtain the ip ... same mac, same IP ?? do you think its possible. check may be it is using nat or smth I don't know. regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
