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Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > I was just about to write you can't, because their actiontec router > isn't a real router, but a thin device. You did something, and I > want to do the same, and I've tried long and hard ... but can't. Nothing sold as consumer/residential broadband "routers" are actually routers. They don't route packets. They bridge networks. This makes them bridges. A bridge that connect networks that use dissimilar protocols is a gateway. Put such a device in a home setting and it's a residential bridge (Ethernet to Ethernet) or a residential gateway (DSL/DOCSIS/FiOS to Ethernet). The Verizon FiOS-branded Actiontec devices are real residential gateways with more or less all of the features one would expect from a very good residential gateway with one exception: a miniscule 1K of RAM for the NAT table by Verizon's request to limit heavy usage like BitTorrent. > I find that if I disconnect and power off the actiontec, plug in some > other device (my laptop), power cycle the ONT, then the line was > unusable. You need to release your IP address from the Actiontec device first (Ethernet or coax WAN port). If you don't do this then Verizon still has the Actiontec's MAC address associated with the IP address assigned to you and you won't be able to get a new IP address until the lease expires. If this does not work then you need to contact Verizon and have someone reset the provisioning on their end so that you can use a new device. You could also try MAC address cloning. There is no routing in an ONT. There is no need: the fibre line is private all the way back to the CO. That's where routing happens. The ONT is a bridge between the fiber on the outside and the ethernet/coax and analog telephone copper on the inside, plus a modem and battery for the telephone. If you can take the Actiontec box out of the circuit then do so. It's not worth having there if you need lots of NATed connections. If you can't do this (you have TV service) then switch it to bridge mode. Doing this is a lot cheaper than forking over another $100 or so for a MoCA to Ethernet bridge when you already have a perfectly good one (mine's been doing it for three years). Either option lets you use your own bridge on the inside. -- Rich P.
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