[Wylug-help] Bridge Filtering

Daniel Walker danielwalker at fastmail.fm
Mon, 20 Jan 2003 12:50:27 +0000


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On Monday 20 Jan 2003 10:32, Simon Wood wrote:
> If you place the ADSL router into bridge mode, the BSD box will have to
> be given your public IP address. This will leave the Windoze box out in
> the cold (without an IP) and you'd have to bring it into the main network
> i.e. behind the BSD firewall.
Yeah, that's what I thought. Sadly, the OpenBSD box is too noisy to have in
the room where the ADSL router is - my flatmate wouldn't get any sleep...


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> Two comments I found about Virtual Servers.
> 1). Router based DHCP server must be off.
That'll be it, then.

> 2). Router needs to be rebooted for Virtual Servers to work.....
I knew that...


> Good luck, and have you remembered to change the default passwords as the
> ftp (flash update) is visable from the ADSL side by default (Doh!!).
I know. Bit of a elementary error, isn't it?

Dan
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