[ale] [OT] make dsl modem visible?

[Tim Watts]

On Friday 24 July 2009 11:30:22 am justin caratzas wrote:
> You can put the modem in router mode  on the WAN side, but you run into
> frustrating NAT issues with two 'routers' linked in series.
>
> Pardon my ignorance, but why would you want to see the modems interface?

It's mostly for convenience. Occasionally, I need/want to remember a setting 
or, if I get really desperate, when call my ISP and they want me to look at 
it. I just hate having to manually plug the modem into the lan whenever I want 
to look at it -- it means I have to get up out of my chair, ugh!

> The road most traveled (and apparently used in this situation as well) is
> to place the modem in 'bridge' mode, making it a pass-through device
> (over-simplification), and using the router for any admin functionality.

Yes, I'm on that road. I pretty much want to stay on it but I want the above 
mentioned convenience too. I'm a demanding, lazy little bastard :-)

>
> justin
>
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Tim Watts <timtw at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > On Friday 24 July 2009 9:21:36 am Louis Zamora wrote:
> > > While you may have a public ip address associated with your dsl modem,
> > > you should be able to hit it with 192.168.1.254. I didn't get what you
> > > were trying to accomplish but recommend untangle for most everything
> > > you'd want to manipulate in routing terms.
> >
> > Untangle looks like an interesting product but I don't see how it would
> > address my situation -- see below.
> >
> > > Is there something you are
> > > trying to do that 192.168.1.254 won't let you?
> >
> > Basically I want to access the web interfaces on both my modem and my
> > router
> > from my lan. As it stands, I can't access the modem when it's connected
> > to the
> > wan port of the router. This is just a home network and I'm using a
> > LinkSys
> >
> > wrt54g router. Here's kind of a picture of what my network looks like:
> >               |---wrt54g---|
> >  |
> >  | boxA |------| hub || wan |
> >  |
> >   | boxB |-------/      \------| modem |----->telco/ISP/internet
> >
> > So between me (box[A-Z]) and the modem there's the router. I don't see
> > anything in the router's web interface that will expose the device on the
> > wan
> > side. The router and modem each have distinct IPs but the modem is on a
> > different physical segment (if I'm thinking about this correctly). I'm
> > thinking/hoping that maybe it's just a limitation in what the web
> > interface exposes and that maybe openwrt could improve on this -- or that
> > I've missed something in the router's web interface. Anyone have an
> > answer? Am I talking
> > non-sense?
> >
> > > On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 08:20 -0400, Tim Watts wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I was wondering if anyone knows if it's possible to make my dsl modem
> > > > accessible from my lan while it's connected to the wan side of my
> >
> > router
> >
> > > > (WRT54G)? I've tried a number of configurations but no cigar. The
> >
> > closest
> >
> > > > I got was to put the modem in 'router' mode and connect it to the lan
> > > > side of the router. Only problem there is I lose the port forwarding
> > > > feature of the router and the modem's web interface is exposed to the
> > > > Internet (despite having remote admin disabled on the modem).
> > > >
> > > > This is an older model of the WRT54g so OpenWRT is a possibility.
> > > > Could that help?
> > >
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