Rogers high-speed internet

[James Knott]

Kevin Cozens wrote:
> Daniel Armstrong wrote:
>> Does the Rogers cable modem act as a router and dynamically assign a
>> IP address to the connected Linux box?
> Yes. The following is from the web page served by the Motorola
> Surfboard 5100 cable modem I have.
>
> DHCP Server Enabled
> The SURFboard cable modem can be used as a gateway to the Internet by
> a maximum of 32 users on a Local Area Network (LAN). When the Cable
> Modem is disconnected from the Internet, users on the LAN can be
> dynamically assigned IP Addresses by the Cable Modem DHCP Server.
> These addresses are assigned from an address pool which begins with
> 192.168.100.11 and ends with 192.168.100.42. Statically assigned IP
> addresses for other devices on the LAN should be chosen from outside
> of this range

You'll note that the DHCP server is only functional when the modem is
off-line.  The modem doesn't act like on of those firewall/router boxes.
>
> If you add a router to the network at some point in time, just
> configure the WAN settings of the router to use the MAC address of the
> computer NIC. That is what I did when I added a wireless router and
> everything is working fine.
>

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