[ale] Setting up LAN with ATT Westel Modem

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 09:49 -0400, James Moore wrote:
> Thanks Joshua,
> Thought it needed to bridged, because when it's PPPoE as it is now the 
> ATT servers seem to be managing rather than my router.

	It's actually all PPPoE.  Just a matter of whether the Westel is doing
in (managed mode) or it's bridging PPPoE to your gateway (bridging mode)
where your gateway is managing the PPPoE sessions.  In either mode, you
can still communication with the Westel on 192.168.1.254.  I've got my
two in bridging mode but I keep a 192.168.1.x (2.x in the case of the
second one) address on the interface so I can communicate with the
modem's administrative interface and run PPPoE in parallel on the same
link.

> Jim

	Mike

> Joshua Chase wrote:
> > Jim, sounds like you will want the Westel to be bridged to the router. 
> > Let the router manage your internal DHCP. This will also be easier for 
> > setting up any IP forwarding you want from the outside world into your 
> > internal network i.e.  ssh connections and so forth.
> >
> > Josh
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:04 AM, James Moore <d2ove4deb at bellsouth.net 
> > <mailto:d2ove4deb at bellsouth.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     Am finally trying a different route to get my laptop to print on a
> >     Stylus C88+ attached to my Dell 4600 desktop.  Am following the
> >     instructions in this how to on the Debian forums:
> >     http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=10438&highlight=printing
> >     <http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=10438&highlight=printing>
> >     Internet access is ATT Westel modem into a Netgear WGT624 router with
> >     Desktop on LAN and Laptop on wireless.
> >     Westel can be configured to either be PPPoE or Bridge Ethernet.
> >      Does it
> >     have to one or the other in order for me to successfully change
> >     from the
> >     router being DHCP to having static addresses for the machines?
> >
> >     Jim
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