On Monday 20 June 2005 14:31, John Wigley wrote: > Hi, > > Before anyone says that this is mad and that it can't be done, it can be > done perfectly well and all WESTELL ADSL / Ethernet routers have this > functionality along with some no name Far Eastern origin broadband routers > based on a Conexant OEM reference design. I'd just like to add weight to this call - it's certainly been done in these cheapy routers, usually called 'PPP Half Bridge'. The router terminates the PPP session, and still launches a DHCP server for the LAN, which will only ever give out one lease, the public address allocated by the ISP, and it does some majik to translate between them. However, there is another option... This morning for the first time I used a Linksys ADSL2MUE device and was disappointed to find that it did not support port forwarding or DMZ host. Even in the UK with BT's PPP-over-ATM setup, what you can do is configure the modem in 'Bridge only' mode - you do not give the modem your ADSL username and password. Then you run 'pppoeconf' in Linux (yes, PPPoE !) and give it your ADSL user+pass - it will give you a ppp0 device set with the public IP address so you can easily assign QoS and proper firewalling to it :)) Well worth a look! Cheers, Gavin.
