On Sunday 19 December 2010 10:10:56 Dale wrote: > It's pretty simple tho. Computer >> router >> DSL modem >> internet.
Seems to me that the only place you need DHCP is on the DSL side of the modem, so that it can request an address from your ISP. If you pay them for a static address, that's the one you'll get; otherwise of course it'll vary from one occasion to another. On the inner side of the DSL modem I suggest you fix an address, say 192.168.0.1, then 192.168.0.2 on the router's modem interface, then 192.168.1.1 on the router's LAN interface. All those with a 24-bit mask for simplicity. (I used to use a 29-bit mask, but that only leaves six addresses free and it was too restrictive.) You could run DHCP in the router if you wanted to, to save yourself setting manual addresses on your computers, but personally I don't bother with DHCP as I prefer to know what address belongs to which interface. It's not as though I had hundreds of boxes to keep abreast of, after all. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
