[nmglug] modem with port translation support

[Andres Paglayan]

On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 12:59 -0700, Anthony Martinez wrote:

> Excerpts from Andres Paglayan's message of Thu Feb 04 10:47:32 -0700 2010:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > my old and noble cisco 678 doesn't support higher speeds provided by qwest, I
> > ordered they recommended pk5000 but this one doesn't support nat port
> > translation, i.e. outside 8080 to inside 80,
> 
> Aww. That saddens me.
> 
> > Is anybody using a modem that supports high speed dsl and port translation,
> > and that you are with?
> 
> I haven't used a DSL modem's NAT capability since I found out that you can put
> the modem into RFC1483 Bridging Mode, and set up a Linux machine behind it using
> PPPoE with your Qwest username and password, and doing all the routing, NAT, and
> DHCP that the modem would otherwise do.
> 
> [home network]-----[eth1]-[eth0]------[whatever modem]
> 

yaks, 
yes, you make feel like a sub-standard linux user,
I returned the pk5000 will look for something that can do the bridge
without paying overprice for un-used features.
(the pk does, but again, why keeping it?)


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