On Thu, 09 Mar 2017 21:08:09 -0800 Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net> dijo:
>John> From what Russell et al. have said here, and from what I can see >John> myself, it appears that the 'modem' is not a modem as we normally >John> think of a modem, rather, it appears to function more as a >John> router. I haven't used its wifi because the Netgear has wifi >John> (only used for my phone and laptop, although the laptop is >John> normally wired). Russell says I need pppoe and VLAN and that >John> these might be doable with the Netgear. I logged into the >John> Netgear router and found a VLAN / Bridge Settings page, which >John> had a big checkbox for 'Enable VLAn / Bridge Setup.' It was not >John> checked and I left it unchecked for now. I didn't find anything >John> that said pppoe, but probably I just don't know what to look for. >It's not terribly likely that the VLAN on the WAN port is supported by >the stock firmware of any off-the-shelf router. It isn't clear why >CenturyLink even does that, except to try to lock you in to their >hardware. Considering your help with the table saw a few months ago, >I'd be happy to build a D-Link DIR860L gateway to do the trick for you. The D-Link DIR860L needs hardware of some kind, I assume. Let me know what you need for me to take you up on your offer. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
