[ale] [OT] make dsl modem visible?

Jason Fritcher jkf at wolfnet.org
Fri Jul 24 17:23:14 EDT 2009


I'm not sure about the GUI tools, but I had to ssh into the router to  
set everything up. If you go the DD-WRT route, try this page, it is  
what I used for my initial setup.

https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Access_To_Modem_Configuration


On Jul 24, 2009, at 3:18 PM, Tim Watts wrote:

> OK, so on JK's reasonable theory that my linksys is stuck on serving
> 192.168.1.0 to lan clients, I reconfigured the modem as 192.168.3.1.  
> Still no
> go. Tried pinging it from the router and workstation -- not  
> reachable. Tried
> adding a static route to that net on the router -- not reachable. It  
> seems
> that any route I try to add on the router that goes thru the WAN  
> interface
> gets silently rejected. So I think what Jason mentions is what I'll  
> have to
> do. I'm going to explore dd-wrt vs openwrt.
>
> Thanks folks!
>
>
> On Friday 24 July 2009 1:28:32 pm Jason Fritcher wrote:
>> I set this up on my wrt54gs a while ago. With the stock firmware, I
>> could not find a way to do this. I changed the router to DD-WRT,  
>> and I
>> was able to put a 192.168.1.x address on the WAN port, add a route on
>> the router so that 192.168.1.x bypassed the pppoe tunnel and was
>> routed directly out the WAN port, and add a static router to the  
>> modem
>> so that it could communicate back. My internal LAN is on the
>> 192.168.0.x subnet.
>>
>> I don't have that modem any more, so I can't offer up my config as an
>> example.
>>
>> On Jul 24, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Tim Watts wrote:
>>> On Friday 24 July 2009 12:31:47 pm JK wrote:
>>>> However, I find that even when in bridge mode, my ATT DSL modem  
>>>> (just
>>>> a modem, not a router) still serves up its admin interface on
>>>> 192.168.1.254
>>>> (or maybe 192.168.1.1, can't remember).  And since the default
>>>> route from
>>>> my router (a Buffalo Airstation running Tomato, but that's not
>>>> relevant)
>>>> goes through the modem, and since my LAN is on a distinct subnet  
>>>> from
>>>> the modem (192.168.80.0/24), I have no problem hitting the modem's
>>>> admin interface from machines on my LAN.
>>>
>>> OK, so sounds like you're saying I might be able to reach it if I
>>> put the
>>> modem and lan on distinct subnets? So if my lan is 192.168.2.0 (it
>>> is) and I
>>> put the modem on 192.168.1.0, then would I need to add a static
>>> route to it on
>>> the router? And/Or on all my lan nodes?
>>>
>>>> Tim's problem may lie in the fact that practically everything in  
>>>> the
>>>> consumer-router world comes pre-configured to serve 192.168.1.0
>>>> addresses to LAN clients.  Changing the LAN subnet in the router
>>>> config might be all that's necessary.
>>>>
>>>> -- JK
>>>>
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