[Cialug] Cisco 678 ADSL router.

[Dave Weis]

Claus wrote:
> On 7/11/2005 9:51 AM, Dave Weis wrote:
> 
>>
>> 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.
> 
> I don't know much and that's why I'm wary.  The DSL modem even in 
> bridging mode is unprotected and thus I like the 678, since you can only 
> access via the serial port.
> 
> I had a very brief encounter with the Actiontech a couple years ago and 
> noticed that you have to connect via the web to configure it.  Very bad 
> for security, especially since it's in front of my firewall.  I also 
> recall that disabling the web administration makes it pretty hard to do 
> any configurations after that.  Way to painful to use IMHO.

The web interface is only accessible on the lan side unless you've 
explicitly enabled it on the wan side and set a password.

dave