Limitation on 2wire 2701HG-B gateway router
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:57 pm
Since the hard drive crash in early August, I have been trying to make the server more productive by creating zones/containers with multiple subnets for different services.
I encountered quiet a few roadblocks.
Most of them come from 2wire gateway router.
First of all, it recognize a computer or any other devices by DHCP.
Once it detects the DHCP client, it will then learn the MAC address from the device.
Then, I can change from DHCP to a static IP address.
Setting up a DHCP client on the server with multiple subnets would cause the server to remove some network settings from some configuration files and make the server unreachable.
A manual change-back is needed.
Second, 2wire's firmware does not allow one device to host multiple IP addresses such as virtual interfaces.
That limits my infrastructure design.
If it were a full-capacity router such as Cisco router, I wouldn't have suffered for weeks to get my infrastructure to work.
This gateway router is designed to work for regular residential use and is not meant to perform high end network routing like those from Cisco.
From the experience of dealing with 2wire and AT&T, they are both useless providing helpful information to my demand.
I guess I am limited by the lack of features from this basic gateway router.
I encountered quiet a few roadblocks.
Most of them come from 2wire gateway router.
First of all, it recognize a computer or any other devices by DHCP.
Once it detects the DHCP client, it will then learn the MAC address from the device.
Then, I can change from DHCP to a static IP address.
Setting up a DHCP client on the server with multiple subnets would cause the server to remove some network settings from some configuration files and make the server unreachable.
A manual change-back is needed.
Second, 2wire's firmware does not allow one device to host multiple IP addresses such as virtual interfaces.
That limits my infrastructure design.
If it were a full-capacity router such as Cisco router, I wouldn't have suffered for weeks to get my infrastructure to work.
This gateway router is designed to work for regular residential use and is not meant to perform high end network routing like those from Cisco.
From the experience of dealing with 2wire and AT&T, they are both useless providing helpful information to my demand.
I guess I am limited by the lack of features from this basic gateway router.