Jeroen1000
Regular Contributor
Got myself a problem I want to solve with such router. My cable ISP provides DHCP with different parameters to their TV setup boxes on one side and computers on the other side.
With a router placed between the cable modem and both computers + setup box, the setup box cannot reach the internet because it needs to use a different gateway and DNS than the computer gear. The computers work fine with the private 192.168.x.x/24 (NATTED) address range but the setup box does not.
So I was thinking of bridging the routers WAN port to a 'special' VLAN 2 (wherein the setup box would reside) and use NAT and a private 192.168.x.x/24 range for all my other gear.
But which routers can do this? I can google myself but I don't even know what to look for in terms of terminolgy.
Do remark the setup box will NOT be directly connected to the router but that it is connected to a 802.1q VLAN capable switch (and this switch is connected to the router, obviously).
Cheers Jeroen
With a router placed between the cable modem and both computers + setup box, the setup box cannot reach the internet because it needs to use a different gateway and DNS than the computer gear. The computers work fine with the private 192.168.x.x/24 (NATTED) address range but the setup box does not.
So I was thinking of bridging the routers WAN port to a 'special' VLAN 2 (wherein the setup box would reside) and use NAT and a private 192.168.x.x/24 range for all my other gear.
But which routers can do this? I can google myself but I don't even know what to look for in terms of terminolgy.
Do remark the setup box will NOT be directly connected to the router but that it is connected to a 802.1q VLAN capable switch (and this switch is connected to the router, obviously).
Cheers Jeroen
