[Wylug-help] OT: Conexant ADSL Routers

[Daniel Walker]

James,

You want the 'half-bridge' mode - basically the router does all the
connection negotiation but passes everything through to the PC. It can
be rather tricky to set up. Doc below is right-ish, IIRC, but it's not
gospel.

Dan

http://www.adslnation.com/downloads/Configuring%20HalfBridge%20Mode.pdf

On Fri, 20 May 2005 19:18:51 +0100, "James Holden"
<wylug at jamesholden.net> said:
> Hello all!
> 
> I'm setting up a Conexant ADSL router for somebody this weekend.
> 
> There will be a Linux box behind the router doing NAT and firewalling.
> 
> How do I set the router up so that the Linux box gets the public IP
> address rather than the router itself?
> 
> Do I just enable Bridge mode in the router's web config thing? The
> documentation seems to suggest that this won't work.
> 
> Do I need to request a block of (four) IP addresses so that the router
> has one and the firewall has one?
> 
> 
> 
> TIA,
> 
> james
> 
> 
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