I have a firewall behind it. It isn't working for me.
I'd prefer to do it the right way, and not rig it.
Don Calfa spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> 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:
> >
> >
> >>----
> >>I don't think that you have to do it that way.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >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.
> >
> >
> >
> >>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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >What 4 ports on the actiontec? I have 1. Also see above comment.
> >
> >
> >
> >>I am guessing that what you are calling the WAN address is simply
> >>another public_ip address
> >>
> >>
> >
> >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.
> >
> >
> >
> >>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.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I don't want to run PPPoA on a desktop/laptop/whatever, I want my fw to get
> >the WAN address.
> >
> >
> >
> >>As for bridging, I thought someone said that Qwest doesn't support
> >>bridging any longer. The Cisco 678 is capable of bridging though.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >The actiontec is "capable" of it, but it does it in a horrid way which is
> >totally broken.
> >
> >
>
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