[Discuss] Configuring a router.

[Patrick]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:50:16 -0800
Andrew Burgess wrote:

> OK, Tired and sleep deprived. Need a litte assitance.
> I have a WRT160N v3 with DD-WRT v24 installed in it.
> I have a network switch attached to a modem and need the router pluged into the switch and letting all wireless devices acquire an ip from the server rather than providing one from the router. I've disabled dhcp and now I've drawn a blank. never needed to do this before so anyone got a configuration change that will let me use this in the manner in which I need to?

Is this an option?  Configure the wireless devices not to use
DHCP either [at least for that particular connection], but pick
their own IP addresses?  Configuring each one separately, and
making sure each one uses a unique IP could be a headache
[depends how many].  And if it's a net.cafe or other open
network, where random devices connect and disconnect as they
please, well, never mind.

If that *is* an option, OpenDNS might be able to help with the DNS
side of things.
	208.67.222.222
	208.67.220.220

I think their basic service, without custom filtering or even
setting up an account, is free for all.  But you might want to
check first.  [I don't have an account, btw, just use the IPs
above in my router, mainly because it's simpler to point directly
at a DNS server than go through all the `proper channels' of the
Rube Goldberg device that is my Internet connection].

Or...

Does the router have a `bridge' mode?  I have dedicated bridge,
which boosts the signal from the landlord/lady's wireless router
upstairs, but that's a separate piece of hardware -- okay, not
*that* separate; it's basically just a cheap-ass router with only
one ethernet port [and buying one might not be an option, in your
case].

When operating as a bridge, it just forwards packets upstream,
and passes them downstream, no questions asked.  You don't even
see the bridge, just the router beyond.  [Can't configure it
either, because you never connect *to* it directly, but through
it, which is why I disabled this feature.]

> Thanks.

Don't thank me yet; that might not be any help at all.  I'm only
guessing.  :-\

> Would have preferred tomato but you work with the clients stuff as they ask.

Oh well.  That's why I thought new hardware might not be an
option.



Patrick.
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