plattypus1
join:2005-04-08
Riverside, CA
 ·Charter Pipeline
| reply to Joony
Re: Dorms not allowing routers question
DO NOT PLUG IN A ROUTER WITHOUT DISABLING DHCP!
It WILL respond to DHCPDISCOVERs from the WAN port. It WILL fsck up the dorm network, and you WILL get caught.\
Plug your WAN into the wall, plug your computers into LAN, and disable DHCP first thing. In fact, do it before plugging your router into the wall. |
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angryjohn
join:2004-11-05
Chicago, IL | What you're suggesting makes no sense. |
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insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN
| reply to plattypus1
The only time a router causes problems is when people plug the schools internet connection to one of the switch ports on the private lan side of the router instead of in the WAN port like they should. When I was in the dorms some idiot did that and my friends computer kept getting it's dhcp from that private router instead of the school and couldn't get on the internet as a result. Luckily it had the default password on it so we were able to turn the dhcp off. |
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