On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Jim Dykes wrote:
I just found that I can use my router as a switch by plugging
everything in as though they were stations......no WAN or LAN!
So far so good!
Not so fast... hate to be a killjoy, but... you may be cruising
for some network weirdness...
If both routers have their LAN side DHCP server turned on,
And especially if the router lan side subnets do not match,
And the 'puters use dhcp to obtain their network info,
Then there really could be periods of "no WAN or LAN!" :)
IOW the lan side of a router is generally not configured as a
"simple switch" by the default configuration. Network weirdness
due to "lan misconfiguration" could possibly be the result.
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