What would be wrong with leaving your Actiontec alone (or buy one) and 
putting a router behind it? That way you're not limited to a Cisco 678

Mike Garfias wrote:

>Craig White spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
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>>I don't think that you have to do it that way.
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>I don't.  I don't trust the ability of the actiontec's software to configure
>the fw properly.  I don't want to use it as the FW.
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>>I typically can put all of the devices I need in the 4 ports on the
>>Actiontec and assign them the public_ip address or if I needed more, I
>>suppose I could add a hub to one of the Actiontec ports.
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>What 4 ports on the actiontec?  I have 1.  Also see above comment.
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>>I am guessing that what you are calling the WAN address is simply
>>another public_ip address
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>In a real static netblock situation from a real ISP, your router will have an
>external public IP address (typically static).  This is the wan interface of
>the router.  The qwest setup doesn't do this (well it does, but you can't get
>at the external address.  Which would be fine, if the actiontec would let me
>run a non-routable address range on its lan interface, and then a static route
>to my net block.  
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>>As for tunneling pppoa - that doesn't make sense to me. The Actiontec
>>handles the pppoa connection and is the gateway device for all the other
>>systems that have a public_ip - thus, there is no reason to fool with
>>pppoa on any of the systems.
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>I don't want to run PPPoA on a desktop/laptop/whatever, I want my fw to get
>the WAN address.
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>>As for bridging, I thought someone said that Qwest doesn't support
>>bridging any longer. The Cisco 678 is capable of bridging though.
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>The actiontec is "capable" of it, but it does it in a horrid way which is
>totally broken.
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