On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 17:25:48 -0700 (PDT) Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip] > >> 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. > > That definitely sounds like advanced setup then. I'm not seeing that. All a user has to do for bridging mode is navigate to a browser link and toggle a setting. Granted, it's some configuration, but not a "ssh to your box and modify iptables with vi" :-)
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