[NCLUG] DSL modem + Wireless Router setup

[S. Luke Jones]

Chris,

There is, and when we checked it, it already was enabled. The Verizon
tech support person walked me through that much.

Unfortunately, there are no manuals or anything provided with the DSL
modem, just an irritating Flash presentation with a bug that keeps you
from going past "Have you installed filters on all your existing phone
lines? - click (not there) for yes or (not there) for no.) There are
things on google, but they're so random (i.e., every phone company
does it differently) that it would take me forever to figure it out --
and I'd probably need to learn what a "route" is. :-)

Luke

On 9/6/06,  wrote:
> Hi Luke,
>
> Is there an admin interface on the dsl modem?  If so, log into it and look for a bridge mode, enable that and you should be good to go.
>
> HTH.
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nclug-bounces at nclug.org [mailto:nclug-bounces at nclug.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 12:54 PM
> To: Northern Colorado Linux Users Group
> Cc: slukejones at accretiondisc.com
> Subject: [NCLUG] DSL modem + Wireless Router setup
>
> <disclaimer>Technically this is not a Linux question but it's close.
> Closer than Windows, further than FreeBSD. It's UNIX, at least,
> because the machine has Mac OSX and if I get it to work my Fedora 5
> machine will be online, and it's also a configuration that isn't
> supported by the gravy-sucking Windows-centric vendors, so I figured
> some NCLUG people might have seen something like it.</disclaimer>
>
> I just got DSL and the "modem" is a Westell Model 6100. As configured
> by Verizon for my line its DHCP server provides me an IP address like
> 192.168.1.(46,47). It works fine when I connect my PC directly to it.
>
> But I want to connect a whole bunch of machines to it. So I got a
> Linksys WRT54G wireless broadband router and plugged its' "WAN" port
> into the back of the Westell "modem". Then I connect my PC to one of
> its "LAN" ports (I don't even want to think about wireless yet) and
> its DHCP server hands me an IP address like 192.168.1.100. I can
> connect to its admin page very nicely.
>
> The problem is that I can only connect to it. I can't ping or
> traceroute anything out there in the world, like nclug.org.
>
> My suspicion is that the wireless router is confused because it has a
> 192.168.1.xxx net on both sides. But that's just a clueless
> TCP/IP-unsavvy idiot's opinion who never quite did figure out what a
> "route" is.
>
> Anyway, if anyone has ever figured out a problem like this. I'd
> appreciate the benefit of your wisdom.
>
>
> --
> Luke Jones <slukejones at gmail.com>
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