[Gllug] Recommend an ADSL modem?

[Dylan]

On Saturday 24 January 2004 16:54 pm, Doug Winter wrote:
> On Sat 24 Jan Nix wrote:
<SNIP>
> > Luckily this is workable around. The NAT, well, I worked around it
> > by using half-bridging mode :)
>
> Gah, so what's a half-bridge?

I've just set this up myself, so hopefully I understand what's going on 
now...

The ADSL modem assigns its external IP address to the internal 
router/gateway, and simply passes all packets through. In a full 
bridge, you need to do the PPPoA/PPPoE on the gateway, but with a half 
bridge the modem does that for you.

You only need to set up the routing table on the gateway with the 
relevant settings, which I managed to work out by trial and error from 
the modem's route table. It seems to be running fine ATM, but it's only 
been going for an hour and I haven't managed to test it from 'outside' 
my local network yet.

HTH

Dylan

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