[Madlug] Re: How to turn off NAT on a TDS Actiontec DSL modem?

[Jason Penn]

Jon Nelson helped me find it. I needed to turn on RFC something-or-other
transparent bridging mode under WAN settings.
Sorry to bug the whole group with this.

-- 
Jason

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Jason Penn <jason at trunk.net> wrote:

> In the words of Jon Nelson, "You guys are smart and know everything." So...
>
> This week I finally changed out my 7 year old 256k/256k TDS DSL for the
> current TDS 2Mb offering. It uses a little black DSL box by Actiontec. As
> delivered, this box is configured to put my side of it behind a 192.168.0.x
> NAT. Well, I already have a WRT54GL (running Tomato) that's been configured
> and running fine for years that puts my side behind a 192.168.1.x NAT. The
> WRT DHCPs an address for the WAN and gets 192.168.0.2 from the Actiontec's
> DHCP server. While this works, I'd rather not have 2 NAT layers.
>
> What I think I want is exactly what I used to have which was a DSL modem
> (old TDS Paradyne) that acts like a bridge. I tried turning off the NAT
> function via the Actiontec's little web UI. The WRT was not able to get a
> public IP address (or any IP address) via DHCP from the WAN side of the
> Actiontec.
>
> I could move the port forwarding maps from the WRT to the Actiontec and get
> rid of the WRT.
> I'd rather keep using the WRT.
>
> What are my options here?
>
> --
> Jason
>
>
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