[Gllug] Anyone having broadband (probably PlusNet) problems today?

[Doug Winter]

Dylan wrote:
> I do this (I think) with a Conexant unit. The ADSL router has a routable 
> IP on the external connection, and a non-routable one on the internal. 
> The gateway/firewall has THE SAME IP on its external interface 
> (connected to the router by ethernet) and a routing rule to access the 
> router's internal address. The upshot is that only the gateway needs to 
> do NAT and port forwarding etc as the router simply hands over all 
> packets. A down side is that it can be somewhat arcane to re-establish 
> a connection if the ADSL link dies since the router will only talk to 
> one box in this config, and then only when it has assigned the IP by 
> dhcp with 60second leases. I'd much prefer to have the router be a 
> truly transparent bridge.

The Conexant can act as a PPPoA <-> PPPoE bridge if you want, and then 
you can run your PPP connection on your gateway.  I wrote a howto once:

http://adju.st/papers/openbsd-adsl-wlan-howto.html

I ran like this for years, but finally had to ditch the firewall when 
the computer room became a nursery :)

doug.

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