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On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 12:59 -0700, Anthony Martinez wrote:
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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]
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yaks, <BR>
yes, you make feel like a sub-standard linux user,<BR>
I returned the pk5000 will look for something that can do the bridge without paying overprice for un-used features.<BR>
(the pk does, but again, why keeping it?)<BR>
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