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> (ADSL)
> I haven't tested this myself yet, but apparently both the ADSL boxes from BCTel
> and the Cable boxes from Rogers are configured to route more than one IP. A
> friend of mine borrowed my hub and invited some friends over for a LAN party
> thingie. They were all running 95 boxes, and I told him that I was pretty
> skeptical about them being able to get it to work the way he wanted it to.
>
> Anyway, he says they plugged the machines in, they were all assigned an address
> on boot, and away they went. No hassle.
>
> (Cable/Wave/Home)
> I've also heard that if you locate an ip on your local loop that isn't being
> used, and you assign that ip to another box, you're off to the races. I haven't
> tested this myself either, and I don't know whether you can pull these ips with
> DHCP, or if you have to find them manually.
>
> Might be worth playing with, anyway.
These modems are essentially bridges. You can steal as many ips as you
want as long as the returning packets are routed back to your router.
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