[Gllug] [OT] Non Nat dsl router advice?

[Andy McGarty]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:30:41 +0100, David Godfrey 
<dave at lists.deltass.co.uk> wrote:

> Andy McGarty wrote:
>
>> So back to my original question, does anyone have a dsl router, not 
>> doing
>> NAT, that only has one IP (or possibly three but not on the same 
>> subnet!)
>> so the dsl router becomes transparent and the linux firewall/servers 
>> have
>> public IP?
>
> Yes - I do. I have a very cheap conexant DSL router in half-bridge
> mode. I spent many hours setting it up but it has since been rock
> solid and I haven't touched it for months. Here are my dhclient config
> files which contain some hastily scribbled notes.
> The main problem is the public IP address must be allocated by the
> routers internal DHCP server with a 60s lease.
>
Thanks for this, I'll give it another try...

Is that 60 Seconds?  That was probably about the time it stayed up for on 
my system.

Isn't there a chance of data loss if its taking down the interface and 
reissuing the ip once a minute?

Andy
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