Re: Trying to replace my router with a Debian machine - but I can't understand my existing setup

2009-02-09 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Aneurin Price wrote: Yeah, it's amazing how often restarting things will magically fix problems. I really ought to remember to try that more often. Nye there's a joke about this and a car, so here it is an engineer, el. technician and computer guy are driving a car and it suddenly stops.

Re: Trying to replace my router with a Debian machine - but I can't understand my existing setup

2009-02-06 Thread Aneurin Price
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Emanoil Kotsev delop...@yahoo.com wrote: Aneurin Price wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Emanoil Kotsev delop...@yahoo.com wrote: they could be configured to take the mac address and obtain the ip ... same mac, same IP ?? do you think its possible.

Re: Trying to replace my router with a Debian machine - but I can't understand my existing setup

2009-02-05 Thread Aneurin Price
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Emanoil Kotsev delop...@yahoo.com wrote: they could be configured to take the mac address and obtain the ip ... same mac, same IP ?? do you think its possible. check This is an interesting point. I've just managed to get the connection to work by re-entering

Re: Trying to replace my router with a Debian machine - but I can't understand my existing setup

2009-02-05 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Aneurin Price wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Emanoil Kotsev delop...@yahoo.com wrote: they could be configured to take the mac address and obtain the ip ... same mac, same IP ?? do you think its possible. check This is an interesting point. I've just managed to get the

Trying to replace my router with a Debian machine - but I can't understand my existing setup

2009-02-04 Thread Aneurin Price
Hello all, This is only tangentially Debian related, but I can't really think of anywhere better to ask, so maybe somebody can help. I have an ADSL connection set up as follows: D-Link DSL-300G+ modem connected to the ADSL line - well it calls itself a modem, but it connects to the rest of our

RE: Trying to replace my router with a Debian machine - but I can't understand my existing setup

2009-02-04 Thread owens
Original Message From: aneurin.pr...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Trying to replace my router with a Debian machine - but I can't understand my existing setup Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:03:53 + Hello all, This is only tangentially Debian related, but I

Re: Trying to replace my router with a Debian machine - but I can't understand my existing setup

2009-02-04 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Aneurin Price wrote: Sorry for not answering exactly your question, but at some point it got too long for me. Read about rtlinux. Why do you need this router? I think the modem can provide you more then 1 IP. I think great things are simple, so I would just remove the router, or configure it to