whee router fun

Linksys and DSLExtreme, you guys both lose at having clueful tech support. I picked up a WRT54GL last week for the house, because I'd like to have a router I can hack on, and finally got around to setting it up a couple of days ago. Well, trying to set it up, anyway. My ISP helpfully offers 5 simultaneous DHCP connexions (for those people who are brave enough to trust software firewalls and a plain old switch, I guess), and I had been tempting fate by running edmund (my OS X laptop) directly connected to the DSL modem. I figured it would be trivial to swap in the router and finally get my VoIP box set up and everything.

( And, of course, it wasn't. )