From: zsd@jdvb.ca   
      
   On 2025-12-29 at 21:38 AST, Lars Poulsen  wrote:   
   > On 2025-12-30, Jim Diamond  wrote:   
   >> My router's DHCP function has a serious case of brain damage.  (It is   
   >> supplied by my ISP and is not easy to avoid using, because of the way they   
   >> control their fiber optic cable based system.)  Right now it thinks the Pi   
   >> in question is using the "mystery" IPv4 address, and it resolutely declares   
   >> that the "proper" address is not connected.  The Pi itself disagrees.   
   >   
   > My current ISP is Frontier Fiber, and I have a business account with   
   > a static IP address. While they supply a fiber termination unit in   
   > my house wiring closet, they also supply a Sagemcom router/WiFi   
   > device, which I *must* use because my static IP is the creation of a VPN   
   > feature inside the router, for which they do not provide any   
   > usable documentation. So I had them bridge that IP to one of the   
   > ethernet ports on the Sagemcom device, and then have my own edge   
   > router attached to that. I can't turn off the WiFi on the Sagemcom, but   
   > I have my own WiFi access point behind my router.   
   >   
   > I am not very happy with the arrangement, but my bandwidth is 500 Mbps   
   > symmetric, although my (old) edge router is only 10/100 ethernet.   
   > But after spending years on a 15Mbps symmetric network, I am happy to   
   > get 100/100 that WORKS.   
      
   There are things to be said for systems that actually work.   
      
   In my case, the fiber termination is in the same one and only box that also   
   houses the router/wifi.  I did run some Cat 5 across my house and put a   
   better wifi router in the diagonally opposite corner, and that one is a   
   much better router.  From what I've read (from people with the same service   
   as me) replacing the ISP's router functions with your own involves a   
   Herculean amount of effort, so I put up with the brain damage.   
      
   I laughed reading your comment "I had them bridge that IP...", because my   
   ISP (the local phone company) goes out of their way to be difficult and   
   obnoxious.  I can't imagine trying to get them to do anything out of their   
   default "this is how it is".   
      
                                       Jim   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)