<div dir="ltr">thanks for the link.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:14 PM, koder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iscreamkid@gmail.com" target="_blank">iscreamkid@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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The terms LAN, WAN, MAN, HAN and such are used very sloppily. <br>
They can be used to designate the physical (geographical) area
covered by the network.<br>
<br>
Most of them were developed in the early networking days when
computers and communication equipment was expensive and the physical
distances you could communicate over were limited.<br>
<br>
Technically, that little Linksys gadget you can hold in your hands
is a LAN server, because the cabling that it will drive can only go
a short distance. Its input comes from a WAN. In today's case that
would most likely, but not necessarily the Intenet.<br>
<br>
In your case you have chosen to put your LAN server between your LAN
and your true server at your Internet Service Provider. In addition,
as I understand it you have an additional modem server further
dividing things up.<br>
<br>
If you care Wikipedia has a nice article that will tell more than
you want to know.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_network" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_network</a><br>
<br>
HM<span class=""><br>
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<div>On 10/19/2014 12:31 AM, Michael Havens
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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?
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<div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:27 PM, koder
<span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iscreamkid@gmail.com" target="_blank">iscreamkid@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Mike,<br>
<br>
I have the same device in my networking system. My answer
may not be 100% correct, but here is my SWAG: <br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
HM
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<div>On 10/17/2014 03:08 PM, Michael Havens wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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:
<div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"><br>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">The
original </span><b style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">WRT54G</b><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"> was
first released in December 2002. It has a 4+1
port </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_switch" title="Network switch" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial" target="_blank">network switch</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"> (the
Internet/WAN port is part of the same internal
network switch, but on a different </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLAN" title="VLAN" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial" target="_blank">VLAN</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">).</span><br clear="all">
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<div>My questions: What is that port for if not
to be an input port for the internet</div>
<div>and</div>
<div>Why was it working as an input port for the
internet and why did it stop working as such?</div>
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