[ILUG] Digiweb and routers

[Michael Watterson]

paul at clubi.ie wrote:
> On Thu, 8 May 2008, Michael Watterson wrote:
>
>> Almost all DSL routers have only ethernet access to the Switch and no 
>> WAN ethernet port.
>
> Hmm, two of the more popular switch ASICs (ADM6996 and the Broadcom 
> 5325) support VLANs just fine. The Marvell one apparently doesn't, but 
> it doesn't seem as common, judging by the TableOfHardware.. The 
> software-switched ones, I'd /presume/, can support anything you want, 
> (but slowly).
>
>> Of course if you change it to OpenWRT and the router really has a 
>> VLAN based switch, then you can of course make one port be a WAN port.
>
> Yeah, the stock firmwares often don't let you tinker with the 
> port<->VLAN mappings. However, if your router runs OpenWRT, that's not 
> a problem.. ;)
>
>> Only some routers have the HW to support that.
>
> Hmm, I might be wrong, but to me it seems you need to apply 
> s/some/most/ to that last sentence.
>
> regards,
Depends if the set of all HW or just the set of HW mentioned/supporting 
OpenWRT?

I'll not quibble. But for the average Windows / Mac user not on this 
list, they are only going to be able to do what the router does out of 
the box :) For them it's safer to tell them to spend 50 Euro+ on an 
ethernet non-DSL modem. :)

-- 
Mike