Re: A problem with 10.0.0.0/8 as the backbone network and consumer routers?
Am 24.01.2012 14:27, schrieb Mike Gabriel:
> Hi Petter,
>
> On Di 24 Jan 2012 13:16:43 CET Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
>> I've discovered a problem with our new backbone network setup. Trying
>> to configure a Linksys Wireless-G broadband router to use 10.0.0.8/8
>> is impossible. Its default firmware can not handle less than /24. It
>> provide /24, /25, /27, etc. but not /8. I suspect this is the case
>> with other consumer broadband routers too.
>>
>> Should we care? This make it harder to test the full Skolelinux setup
>> with common hardware. :(
>
> Sounds like a crap firmware to me...
>
> I would no care. I have never encountered that with other devices. But I
> am no hardware specialist...
>
> Mike
>
>
Hi!
I had the same issue some years ago with a D-Link printserver.
D-Link-hotline told something like "Our printserver is designed for
home-networks. So other masks then 24-bit are not needed".
For linksys -routers i guess there should be the possibility to flash
something like
openWRT
> https://openwrt.org/
freeWRT
> http://freewrt.org
dd-wrt
> http://www.dd-wrt.com
ReadU
Frank
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