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Not a consumer router, but the cable modem / gateway provided to me by Shaw Cable (now Rogers) in Canada does not allow me to shut off DHCP or customize the DNS
by lm411 3y ago
Not a consumer router, but the cable modem / gateway provided to me by Shaw Cable (now Rogers) in Canada does not allow me to shut off DHCP or customize the DNS servers it provides DHCP clients.
I can and do put it in bridge mode and use my own router, but I was quite surprised and miffed to see this. First time I've ever come across that.
The router is a Comcast / Xfinity XB6 and I've been told that this is a "feature" of all of Comcast's routers / gateways.
- harry8 3y agoClarifying: so you connect $something to the cable modem. Make a dhcp request and get back your public ip (and some dns servers). But it isn't doing nat or handing out local addresses to your local network. Right? _Or_ it's a combined modem-and-router-in-one which manages your local subnet for you and you can't configure how it does this at all beyond switching the router part off and using a separate router. That sounds nuts?