[Gllug] [OT] dsl router advice?

[Andy McGarty]

Hi,

I have my linux boxes behind a DSL router doing NAT at present but I need 
to make one of them have a public address.

My current cheapo router has a thing called half bridge that seems to 
allow this but its very flakey and I lose the connection every few minutes 
so I've gone back to the previous NAT config.

I know a number of people have servers on public DSL addresses and wonder 
what dsl routers you are using?  I currently have just the one IP, but my 
provider has given me two extras (not in the same subnet!) so presumably 
the router will have to become transparent to pass everything through to 
my own linux based firewall/servers.  Will I have to use "bridged ethernet 
over ATM" rather than my current IP over ATM?

Finally, I'm confused how the gateway address I've been using is on a 
totally different subnet to the my own ip/netmask as I've always thought 
your router had to be on the same subnet?

Any advice on the above would be appreciated.

Andy
aka confused of Purley
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