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Re: Dorms not allowing routers question

If you plug in the ports right on your router, you shouldn't mess up the campus network at all!
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I talked to the Resnet support people and they said it would. It was also mentioned earlier in this thread that it would mess with a campus network
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ResNet probably doesn't want you to install routers/switches/hubs cause that means introducing more computers (i.e. more bandwidth... which translates into cost for them ). If you are installing a router/hub (which is a common thing), you should not have a problem.

The earlier statement about it not working on a campus network is without merit (as you can see -- no one backed up his claim). Happy surfing!
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They said they didnt really care about how many devices were on the network (they even offered to setup QoS for me for free in the event I got a VoIP device)
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K, I've been reading this, so this looks like it will help; »www.tomsnetworking.com/2002/09/1···ge4.html
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reply to fegul
If someone is a dumbass and leaves the DHCP server on, and plugs the network cable into a LAN port, instead of WAN, it will cause havoc. The router would start giving out IPs to other machines. Definitely not good.

As long as you plug the cable from the wall into the WAN port and clone the WAN MAC address, if your resnet auths based on MAC, you should be fine. The only issue that will arise is the router's NAT/firewall killing any filesharing abilities with outside networks.
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Thats all I needed to know, and thats exactly what I figured. Thanks!

reply to Joony
Some of you need to stop giving advice when you know nothing.

reply to Joony
If you plug the ethernet from your dorm into the Wan/Internet port on your router, then your network devices into the 1-4 switch ports, you will be fine. A DHCP server is fine because it will only assign IP address within the LAN, the devices within the 1-4 port switch. The router does not do a backwards DHCP, no DHCP assighnments come out of your routers wan/Internet Port.

If you were to plug the ethernet cable that is supposed to go into the Wan port into a switch port, then it will start assigning 192.168.x.x IP address to other nodes.

A router is fine, But an Admin can see that you are using a Linksys router, This is due to the name of the node being Linksys.