[mdlug] AT&T 2Wire 3600HGV Uverse Gateway Trouble Hopefully Solved, Was Network Slowdown Troubleshooting/Netgear WNDR3700 Free To Good Home

[Peter Bart]

On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:49:38 -0500
"Carl T. Miller" <carl at carltm.com> wrote:

> Peter Bart wrote:
> > 	Ok, yes. I have a business connection with dynamically
> > assigned IP address's. But I should still be able to get public IP
> > 	address to my router, whether it's with the DMZ
> > configuration or otherwise. It'll just be dynamically assigned,
> > right?
> 
> Umm.  I don't know if it works that way.  I hard coded
> the IP address on my router and I configured the IP
> address to be associated with the router's MAC address.

	Hmmm, I'm assuming that because I have my wireless router set
	to automatically get it's IP address from the 2Wire via
	DHCP that's how my wireless router get's it's MAC associated
	with an IP address.
> 
> Since you don't have a static IP address, I don't think
> you'd be able to associate a dynamically assigned address
> to your MAC address.  And even if it did work, your network
> would go down every time the address changed until you went
> back and reconfigured everything.

	Maybe I have some more reading to do then! I'll probably go
	ahead and break it to see what works and what doesn't. 
> 
> As long as your current setup works, I wouldn't suggest
> trying to bypass NAT.
> 
> c
> 
	Agreed! For the time being anyway....... Thanks for the help!
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Best Regards,

Peter The Plumber
<petertheplumber at att.net>