DSL router and system access

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" <kevin_brown@uswest.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
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