[Cialug] Cisco 678 ADSL router.

[Dave Weis]

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, David Champion wrote:
> Claus wrote:
>> On 7/10/2005 10:22 PM, Dave Weis wrote:
>>> On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, bofh at visi.com wrote:
>>>> For just plain PnP DSL, it's not bad.
>>>> However, I'm doing a bit more with transparent rfc1483 bridging to a--for
>>>> now--linksys vpn router.  The lack of a serial port for monitoring what's
>>>> happening with the connection is just driving me insane.
>>> You can telnet to the actiontec with username/password of admin and poke 
>>> around. It's running Linux. The web interface also shows some of the info.
>> I didn't think the actiontec supports bridging.  Am I wrong or has the 
>> firmware changed since I looked at it?
> Something I'm planning to do Real Soon Now(tm) - I have the white Actiontec 
> that requires the goofy wireless card, but I have a perfectly good d-link 
> router / AP... so I was going to set the Actiontec to put the d-link in it's 
> DMZ, and use the d-link for everything else.
>
> Not 100% sure this will work - there is the potential that going thru 2 
> routers will cause issues with certain protocols, but I'll give it a try.

They do still support briding fine, I've got a couple clients on other 
ISP's that use them. You can still give it a 192.168 IP for 
administration.

I don't know if the dmz thing will work, have to try it.

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