[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox as a home router to replace Cisco/Linksys

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Sean Alexandre <sean864 at pobox.com>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: freedombox list <freedombox-discuss at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 2, 2012 8:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox as a home router to replace Cisco/Linksys
> 
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 16:25:32 -0700 (PDT)
> Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
>>  > I see. Interesting. I have Time Warner and have to use the device
>>  > they provide. By default it's a wireless router with NAT. It can 
> be
>>  > configured for just pass-through, though, which is what I've done 
> --
>>  > "bridging mode".
>> 
>>  Is it a device that doubles as a dsl modem and wireless router?  (I
>>  forgot about those devices.)
> 
> Yes, it's a device that doubles as a wireless router and, in my case, a
> cable modem.
> 
>>  How hard was putting it in "bridging mode"?  Does Time Warner 
> give
>>  you the l/p for the device?  And what exactly does "bridging 
> mode" do?
> 
> It was pretty easy actually. It came with a web admin app, that has a
> setting for "bridging mode." All I had to do was toggle the setting.
> 
> Bridging mode causes it to work at layer 2 instead of layer 3. So it
> doesn't have an IP address anymore. It passes layer 2 traffic through
> to my own router, which now has the IP address assignment from Time
> Warner.
> 
> I don't know much about cable modems, so don't know what the layer 2
> traffic looks like. Presumably it's based on MAC addresses, or
> something like a MAC address??
> 
> Of course since the device no longer has an IP address, I can't get
> back to the web app to untoggle the setting. I'd have to do a hard
> reset.

That definitely sounds like advanced setup then.