[ale] Modem/router config for Comcast

Jim Lynch ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com
Mon Jul 30 08:33:59 EDT 2012


On 07/29/2012 03:28 PM, Matt Rutherford wrote:
> Most residential cable modems (the ones without a built-in wifi) are 
> in bridge/pass-through mode by default - what modem manufacturer and 
> model are you using? The cable modem should pass a public IP to the 
> router, which can then handle all the NATing. While cable modems 
> answer to a 'local' IP address (Motorolas, for example, will reply as 
> 192.168.100.1 even when you're not getting DHCP from the cable 
> system), they generally do not NAT by default.
>
> -Matt R
Mot. SB6121. It sounds like the default setup works the same as DSL in 
bridge mode.

Jim.


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