Nate425
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Re: Dorms not allowing routers question
They just don't want you running DHCP off of the router...that's what they can detect because it'll screw with their network pretty severely. All you need to do is disable DHCP on your router, then have a network cable running from the port in your dorm room to the LAN side of the router, leaving the WAN port empty. |
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uid1307457
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| said by Nate425  :They just don't want you running DHCP off of the router...that's what they can detect because it'll screw with their network pretty severely. All you need to do is disable DHCP on your router, then have a network cable running from the port in your dorm room to the LAN side of the router, leaving the WAN port empty. to use a router in a dorm for multiple pcs you would need DHCP.
just turn off the WAN access and DMZ zones...make sure to buy a cheap router too. |
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Nate425
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| said by uid1307457 : to use a router in a dorm for multiple pcs you would need DHCP. just turn off the WAN access and DMZ zones...make sure to buy a cheap router too. Not exactly. If the router is giving out 192.168.x.x addresses and the network uses 172.x.x.x addresses, you'll mess up the network with dhcp enabled because now you have 2 dhcp servers on the network both giving out completely different addresses to whatever client asks for one. If you turn off dhcp on the router, you effectively make the router a switch, and it will get the ip addresses from the school network and all will be right in the world. |
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uid1307457
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| and if you buy a router you can assign the IP address on both sides, just like you can assign the IP address of your NIC card on your computer even tho DHCP is enabled on the router as long as you assign a number that is within the given pool of addresses, which is not that hard to find out and do. dont argue with me on this you will lose. |
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Nate425
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| There's more than one way to skin a cat, chief. Each does the job just fine, now quit getting all pissy on me. I'm talking about the general masses that don't know anything about routers, you're talking about the people that can actually do stuff. Problem solved. |
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Jacob
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said by Nate425 :Not exactly. If the router is giving out 192.168.x.x addresses and the network uses 172.x.x.x addresses, you'll mess up the network with dhcp enabled because now you have 2 dhcp servers on the network both giving out completely different addresses to whatever client asks for one. No... your "LAN" behind the router is a seperate network segment. Those computers don't 'see' the higher-level DHCP server.
...unless, of course, you're plugging the WAN and LAN ports into your campus network, which is stupid... |
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