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Originally Posted by Derivative
I don't know about Linksys routers. But It's an issue with Belkin routers, ahem I did not know what I was doing, and my internet worked perfectly, I already warned people of the consequences of doing this. I followed my firend's step-by-step instructions in which I posted here.
Like I said, this is kind of a LAST resort thing to do. DHTP is sort of the problem, It's the reason at least for my router, why I can't port forward, It's not like any of you could figure oiut what was wrong after I port forwarded.
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Belkin stuff sucks anyway (IMO). You do *not* want to know what they did with one router to advertise some parental control feature. Suffice to say they got flamed heavily for it. Nobody likes it when a router hijacks random HTTP connections.
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Oh and BoggyB, I am going to be straight with you here. I'm not sure if you've ever turned off DHTP or tried messing with it, because this WAS the only thing that got my router to work, so correction, it possibly will work. I'm not so sure about Linksys people, but probably for Belkin.
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I have set up systems with DHCP both disabled and enabled. If you know what you're doing, disabling DHCP can make setting up filesharing over TCP a lot easier. If you don't know what you're doing, then it's best to leave it on as then things usually just work. Not everyone knows a lot about networking.
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I'm not sure about multiple computers, as I was still tinkering with them, I should have warned people about that. Um, but why would you have a router if you have only one pc?
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With multiple computers if you disable DHCP you then have to set a static IP on every computer. Miss one and it'll stop talking to the internet within a day (depending on how the DHCP system has been done in the router).
Most consumer routers (e.g. the ones you can buy from PC World) are actually NAT boxes. These basically make lots of computers look like one computer to the outside world. A nice (or not so nice if you're trying to host a server) side-effect is that nobody can connect to any of your computers unless you connected to them first or opened the port on the router. Goodbye RPC worms!
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