[nmglug] that new Qwest offer

[Tim Emerick]

Thanks for the clarification.  I knew it had something to do with the bridging mode and disabling all the services (NAT,DHCP, etc).  I've never done it myself but certainly will keep that info tucked away for future use.

Tim

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Tim Emerick wrote:
> Qwest/MSN is just fine.  If I were you I would not buy their newer 2wire 
> modems but get one of their older Actiontec DSL modems from Ebay. They can be
>  had for about $20. The latest firmware can do everything you might need. If
> you don't like their router you can always turn off NAT and forward
> everything to the router of your choosing. smoothwall, clarknet, whatever.

Even better than turning off NAT and setting up forwardings, is setting the
router to RFC1483 Bridging mode, and telling whatever's behind it that it wants
to talk to a PPPoE network. That way, all the actiontec is doing is throwing PPP
traffic back and forth and isn't tasked with authentication or wireless or
anything of the sort.

Works like a charm here, with a Linksys WRT54G running OpenWRT behind the Actiontec.

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