liksys WRT54G

[Michael Havens]

thanks for the link.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:14 PM, koder <iscreamkid at gmail.com> wrote:

>  The terms LAN, WAN, MAN, HAN and such are used very sloppily.
> They can be used to designate the physical (geographical) area covered by
> the network.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> If you care Wikipedia has a nice article that will tell more than you want
> to know.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_network
>
> HM
>
> On 10/19/2014 12:31 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
> 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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