In MsgID<f6vuh.98599$(E-Mail Removed)> on Fri, 26 Jan 2007
22:17:47 GMT, in uk.comp.home-networking, 'ToxOgrady' wrote:
>The VC was on 35. Changing to 38 did the trick
>
>I just need to suss out how to make my old PT3812 router work just a swich
>now. Do I just have to turn off ASDL & DHCP ?
Just don't connect anything to the ADSL/WAN side of it. A switch is just a
switch, the commercial router/switch combos have an internal link between
a two-port router and an unseen port on the switch that distributes the
output around your LAN.
If the router's inactive then it will have no effect on your network. I'd
set its IP to be on your subnet, just so it's easier to configure if the
need arises, and is a known quantity so you can avoid clashes. In theory
however you could ignore it completely.
And, yes, I'd turn off DHCP on the router, once you've done that you can
pretty much forget about it, it has nothing to route and nowhere to route
it to.. Perhaps set it up as something static, just so it's not sitting
there trying to make a connection that's never going to happen.
Dave J.
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