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Make a router act as a simple DSL modem

  • 19-12-2005 06:23PM
    #1
    GoneShootin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,478 ✭✭✭


    As above. Perhaps the stupidest question ever. I have a router - and I'm arsing about with another router. To cut out all possible causes for error, I want my current router to act as a just a modem. Is it as simple as disabling DHCP alone?

    This is prolly one of those "smacks forhead" questions once I get the answer.


Comments

  • #2
    lynchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,033 ✭✭✭lynchie


    You have to put the router into bridge mode. Should be an option in your admin page for it.


  • #3
    GoneShootin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,478 ✭✭✭GoneShootin


    How does operating in bridge mode effect VPN passthru? Or does it. That is, if the router supports it in the first place ofc.


  • #4
    axer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,518 ✭✭✭axer


    what type of connection are you using between the two routers? cat5?


  • #5
    GoneShootin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,478 ✭✭✭GoneShootin


    axer wrote:
    what type of connection are you using between the two routers? cat5?

    ye - standard ethernet - not crossover (so dont need any uplink ports)


  • #6
    axer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,518 ✭✭✭axer


    Just turn off DHCP and it should automatically forward packets to the default gateway (i.e. the router connected to the phone line)


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  • #7
    Snaga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭Snaga


    If you turn a router into bridged mode - it doesnt participate in your network as a router anymore - so it does no routing/nat/dhcp/vpn passthrough/firewalling/pppoe logins etc... etc...

    It simply changes the ATM traffic from the dslam into ethernet traffic for your LAN.

    You feed the ethernet traffic into your second router (Which will perform your pppoe login) that you want to use on your LAN.


  • #8
    GoneShootin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,478 ✭✭✭GoneShootin


    So that means then that I could just slap in an output from the "dumb" router into the

    a) INTERNET port of the below image (linksys wrv54g) ?

    linkdet.jpg

    Tis multiple VPN access is my crux - and the router that I have to work with is the Linksys WRV54g


  • #9
    Snaga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭Snaga


    Thats exactly what it means :)


  • #10
    Ruaidhri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,719 ✭✭✭Ruaidhri


    If the router is in bridge mode, you need to "talk" PPPoE or PPPoA to it. Then you bring IP up over PPPoX. You then config your VPN passthrough via whatever box or device that then routes IP to PPPoX. This make sense? :)


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