<html><head></head><body><div>On Sat, 2018-09-01 at 13:51 +0000, Iznogoud wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>Thanks for hte info Randy. I know you and I haev talked about your router,
and recently in view of that notorious attack that many systems experienced.
Regarding "bridge mode" over ISP type networks. I do not even know how to go
about having the ISP getting their modem to work in bridge mode. This really
trully means that they have to be assigning internet addresses to the
machines that pass through the bridge. Correct? I that case, do they not
care that one of ther subscribers is taking up more than one IP?
As an example, I use VirtualBox all the time, and maek the VMs's network be
bridged to the host's NIC (ehternet or wireless adapter). That way, my main
DHCP serve, which is a simple wireless route, assigns the IPs. (The benefit
here is that the VMs are jsut another IP on the network, and can be accessed
from any other one.) This keeps using up IPs from the DHCP server. Is this
not a concern for ISPs?
I will echo Randy's caution, about bridging to WANs of ISPs. You are exposing
the system to the outside world in a pretty raw manner. So, it better be a
router, like Randy's, or a very well-kept Linux cut for the job.
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</a></pre></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Internet --- cable modem --- EdgeRouter --- LAN(s)</div><div><br></div><div>The EdgeRouter will only get a single ISP-provided IP addr (unless I subscribe to business class, which I don't). The cable modem still gets its single IP addr but it's passed through to the EdgeRouter. The DOCSIS protocol is what cable modems use and that controls the aspects of my subscription from the ISP.</div><div><br></div><div>The EdgeRouter's WAN port gets the single ISP-provided IP addr. The LAN side is all under my control and there are no Internet routable IP addrs on the LAN side.</div><div><br></div><div>Behind the EdgeRouter (the LAN side), I can have as many IP addrs as I want/need, and each LAN configured in the the EdgeRouter can have it's own DHCP server serving separate subnets. </div><div><br></div><div>I too, use VirtualBox, and bridge the host's IP addr to the VM - that's just another NAT (network address translation) - the same type of NAT going on in the EdgeRouter that translates all of my LAN IP addrs to the single WAN IP addr.</div><div><br></div><div>For the current Comcast cable modems, here's how you put them into bridge mode.</div><div>In your browser, open up <a href="http://10.0.0.1">http://10.0.0.1</a> (this used to be 192.168.0.1, but changed with the latest cable modems, but if 10.0.0.1 doesn't work, try 192.168.0.1)</div><div>The default Username/password is admin/password (how original)</div><div>On the home page, click the "Enable" button next to "Bridge Mode:" (see attached file if it comes through)</div><div><br></div><div>Hope that helps</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>