[ale] OT: What the hell is XSS in Comcast land?

[Pete Hardie]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

> I really don't think you have to be in bridge mode.  I have 3 routers
> between my pc and the internet counting the comcast device.  They're all in
> router mode, I think.  I know mine are.  At least I've never changed the
> comcast device.  I suppose it could be in bridge mode.  Each device uses
> dhcp to get configuration from the next.  The only gotcha would be if you
> need to do port forwarding into the network.  The other slight disadvantage
> if ganging routers is that there is a slight increase of latency of about
> 10 - 20 mS per router.  If you're trying to do ultra precise time setting
> from ntp or something, that could create additional problems.  I don't do
> any port forwarding and I've given up worrying if my pc clock is less than
> 500 mS off.
>

For the newer devices that have the wifi+phone, bridge mode will shut off
those "features".  I have that now b/c I have my own wifi setup and did not
want the generic DHCP the Comcast device provided


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