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Re: [LUG] Two DrayTek Vigor modems on the same LAN

 

On 14 Sep 2014, at 00:59, Martijn Grooten <martijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 11:21:50PM +0100, Simon Avery wrote:
>> If you have two dhcp servers on any network, it's a recipe for randomness,
>> especially if they're set to allow any new client. You should never give
>> the same ip ranges to two dhcp servers though. 9 times out of ten, any
>> unexplained weirdness on a network will be IP conflict.
> 
> Yeah, that makes sense. I *think* in this setup there shouldn't be a
> conflict, because they're really on separate networks (DHCP packets
> shouldn't go beyond the machines the routers are connecting to) but
> here my reasoning becomes sloppy. Of course, making sure they use
> separate IP ranges for their respective DHCP stuff won't hurt.)
> 
> (Just to clarify: DHCP is only used to manage the modem. As Gordon
> points out, the actual traffic uses PPPoE. The network itself only uses
> fixed IP addresses.)
> 

Martijn, I’ve got 2 almost new Cisco RV180 small business routers, that I bought for 
a project where I needed a hardware p-2-p vpn but they are now just gathering dust - 
I was going to ebay them … but if you’d be interested in them it would be a win-win 
for us both. 

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/routers/rv180-vpn-router/index.html

150 for the pair + postage. 
 

> Thans
> 
> Martijn.
> 
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