On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 16:25:32 -0700 (PDT) Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip] > > I see. Interesting. I have Time Warner and have to use the device > > they provide. By default it's a wireless router with NAT. It can be > > configured for just pass-through, though, which is what I've done -- > > "bridging mode". > > Is it a device that doubles as a dsl modem and wireless router? (I > forgot about those devices.) Yes, it's a device that doubles as a wireless router and, in my case, a cable modem. > How hard was putting it in "bridging mode"? Does Time Warner give > you the l/p for the device? And what exactly does "bridging mode" do? It was pretty easy actually. It came with a web admin app, that has a setting for "bridging mode." All I had to do was toggle the setting. Bridging mode causes it to work at layer 2 instead of layer 3. So it doesn't have an IP address anymore. It passes layer 2 traffic through to my own router, which now has the IP address assignment from Time Warner. I don't know much about cable modems, so don't know what the layer 2 traffic looks like. Presumably it's based on MAC addresses, or something like a MAC address?? Of course since the device no longer has an IP address, I can't get back to the web app to untoggle the setting. I'd have to do a hard reset. [snip]
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