well the us pest set up is what i was asking about. 675 external included. this is my first experience with a router. tried getting the info from us pest, but they had no idea what i was talking about. any chance of you showing this to me sometime or giving more info? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Brown" To: Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 10:24 PM Subject: Re: DSL router and system access > That depends on how the router is configured. I currently have the cisco > external DSL router (675) configured with USWest as my ISP. It is running in > bridging mode which means that the ROUTER has both an External IP (one that is > visible to the net) and an internal ip (10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0). It > acts as a DHCP server for all my boxes behind it. As such it is hooked directly > into the Hub. With it in this configuration I have to edit the NAT inside the > router to redirect traffic of certain types (tcp or udp) on certain ports to > point to specific IP's and ports on an internal system. I currently have apache > on one of my systems and have all port 80 tcp requests passed through the router > to it. In routing mode the DSL router is a passive device and doesn't get an ip > itself. The IP is given to a Computers NIC. In either case you will need to > know how your network is layed out and determine the configurations of the > router and the computer it is connected to