- Motorola Surfboard 4200
- Posted by Tal on July 23rd, 2003
Hi All
I Want To Know If There Is A Way To Convert My Motorola Cablemodem to
A Router (Like ADSL Modem - Alcatel)????
And If There Is How To Do It...
Thenx
Tal
- Posted by David H. Lipman on July 23rd, 2003
NO
Dave
- Posted by Rich Piotrowski on July 23rd, 2003
On 23 Jul 2003 07:43:16 -0700, talwolbe@myrealbox.com (Tal) wrote:
It already is a router! See;
http://broadband.motorola.com/noflash/sb_faq.html#p7
You ISP will have to provision it for multiple IP addresses. That will
surely cost extra. You may have to pay the full account price per IP
address.
If you want to share a single account over several computers, you may
just want to spend the money for a seperate router/firewall/switch.
Rich Piotrowski
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- Posted by Ron Hunter on July 23rd, 2003
Rich Piotrowski wrote:
usually run about $50 after rebates.
- Posted by David H. Lipman on July 23rd, 2003
Rich:
The Surfboard 4200 is NOT a Router !
I repeat it is NOT a Router nor does it have Router capabilities.
Don't you understand the very text you quoted ?
http://commerce.motorola.com/cgi-bin...30509&zipcode=
While this device allows upto 31 Ethernet and one USB clients, the subscriber
must purchase each additional IP address from the Cable ISP for this to be done.
That means that all 32 possible are on the same network and the nodes are not
routed. A NAT Router uses private addressing, such as 192.168.x.x, to share one
ISP provided public IP address. The two methods are NOT the same and the
surfboard is NOT a Router, nor does it fit the definition of a Router. At best
this is just a Bridge.
Dave
"Rich Piotrowski" <abuse@wi.rr.com> wrote in message
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| It already is a router! See;
|
| http://broadband.motorola.com/noflash/sb_faq.html#p7
|
| You ISP will have to provision it for multiple IP addresses. That will
| surely cost extra. You may have to pay the full account price per IP
| address.
|
| If you want to share a single account over several computers, you may
| just want to spend the money for a seperate router/firewall/switch.
|
|
| Rich Piotrowski
|
| To E-mail use: rpiotro(at)wi(dot)rr(dot)com
- Posted by Rich Piotrowski on July 24th, 2003
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 22:02:20 GMT, "Warren" <wholzem@hotmail.com>
wrote:
OK, I stand corrected but, I still maintain that a router does not
need to do NAT to be a router.
Rich Piotrowski
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- Posted by timeOday on July 25th, 2003
David H. Lipman wrote:
For one thing one may notice there is only 1 ethernet port on the device,
which in itself runs contrary to the notion of "routing"... just as I doubt
anybody would pay much for a one-port hub 
- Posted by Rich Piotrowski on July 25th, 2003
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 08:32:32 -0600, timeOday
<timeOdayUN-SPAM@theknack.net> wrote:
I've been corrected that the SB4200 is indeed not a router. But,
routers do not need more than one output port to start with. What you
are thinking of is probably is a router/switch. For a common example
of a router only see;
ftp://ftp.linksys.com/datasheet/befsr11ds.pdf
At work we have a Cisco 1721 and a 3600 with only a single input (T1
WIC) and a single output (ETH0). The 2600 has multiple interfaces for
various WICs. Are these not routers?
Rich Piotrowski
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- Posted by David H. Lipman on July 25th, 2003
Gee another ...
NO
A perfect example Linksys BEFSR11. I WAN port 1 LAN port Cable/DSL Router.
Dave
"timeOday" <timeOdayUN-SPAM@theknack.net> wrote in message
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| David H. Lipman wrote:
|
| > NO
| >
| > Dave
|
| For one thing one may notice there is only 1 ethernet port on the device,
| which in itself runs contrary to the notion of "routing"... just as I doubt
| anybody would pay much for a one-port hub
|
|
- Posted by David H. Lipman on July 25th, 2003
YES...
Dave
"Rich Piotrowski" <abuse@wi.rr.com> wrote in message
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| I've been corrected that the SB4200 is indeed not a router. But,
| routers do not need more than one output port to start with. What you
| are thinking of is probably is a router/switch. For a common example
| of a router only see;
|
| ftp://ftp.linksys.com/datasheet/befsr11ds.pdf
|
| At work we have a Cisco 1721 and a 3600 with only a single input (T1
| WIC) and a single output (ETH0). The 2600 has multiple interfaces for
| various WICs. Are these not routers?
|
|
| Rich Piotrowski
|
| To E-mail use: rpiotro(at)wi(dot)rr(dot)com
