liksys WRT54G

[Michael Havens]

so the port I'm wondering about is an input port then. I thought I read
that it is also a wan part.  How does that work? Like I know the internet
is a wan but how does it work in this case?


:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:27 PM, koder <iscreamkid at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Mike,
>
> I have the same device in my networking system. My answer may not be 100%
> correct, but here is my SWAG:
>
> The device was designed to serve as a router with DHCP server
> capabilities, in other words it hands out IP addresses to requests that
> come from one of the output ports.
>
> You can access the device using its web page and turn that feature off, it
> then acts as a bridge router and the DHCP functioning will come from
> further upsteam, from your other router.
>
> The network will not function correctly if you have two different devices
> trying to pass out IP addresses using DHCP. Everything pretty much quits
> talking to each other.
>
> While I have never tried using the device by plugging everything only into
> the output ports, I am guessing that connection setup would use the device
> as a bare dumb switch. No more double DHCP, only happy connectivity.
>
> I am reasonably sure my explanation is not technically correct, but is
> functional. I was quite loose with input, output, upstream, and  downstream
> analogies, but that is the way I think of them.
>
> By the way on a separate item, it is my understanding that most of these
> devices are hacked and infected and should be either upgraded, or replaced.
> I have yet to do either, but I think that is the case.
>
> HM
>
>
>
> On 10/17/2014 03:08 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
> That is the router I have. On the back there are 4 LAN ports and another
> port labled Internet. My setup had the cable from the modem feeding into
> that port and everything worked until a couple of days ago. Today I
> switched that cable to a LAN port and everything worked again. I asked in
> another thread the purpose of the internet port and MR Butash gave me an
> answer but it is still a lot hazy. In my research to answer the question
> myself I found a wikipedia article that states:
>
>  The original *WRT54G* was first released in December 2002. It has a 4+1
> port network switch <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_switch> (the
> Internet/WAN port is part of the same internal network switch, but on a
> different VLAN <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLAN>).
>
>  My questions: What is that port for if not to be an input port for the
> internet
> and
> Why was it working as an input port for the internet and why did it stop
> working as such?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
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