[ale] WRT54G2 wifi router troubles

Lightner, Jeff jlightner at water.com
Thu Apr 8 16:24:16 EDT 2010


M ostly

C lueless

S upport

E ntity

 

Of course you did the wrong thing - now he'll refuse to honor his work
since you "interfered" and will blame anything that goes wrong in future
on her laptop on you.   "Well you see the reason your hard drive failed
is because of the extra work caused by not doing the pass through..."
:-)

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Kinney
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 2:34 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] WRT54G2 wifi router troubles

 

 

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Charles Shapiro
<hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:

MCSE technical guru != Genius


So now her MCSE dude is telling her that she really wants to put her
DHCP modem in pass-through mode and do PPPOE through her wireless
router. 


Strike MCSE dude with a large, blunt object. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
This will accomplish nothing except to complicate the connection process
onto her system. There's _no_good_ reason to provide the windows laptop
with a direct  to the Internet IP address. There are _many_very_good_
reasons to hide all windows machines behind layers and layers of
obfuscation and security and IPv6 blocks.

	
	I wrote an email to the other guy, but I'm assured that he won't
	answer and probably won't even read it, seein' as how he's a
	$100-an-hour system administrator and everything.
	
	Did I do the Right Thing?


Send him a bill for $180/hr. 

 



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