[TriLUG] OT: new DSL modem from bellsouth

[Andrew Phillips]

I have the westell modem and it causes me no harm. I have a linux
firewall and so I setup the westell modem into bridge mode and let my
firewall deal with authentication. Of course Bellsouth won't give
customer server anymore... <sarcasm>what a loss</sarcasm>.

If you're interested, this article explains how to do it:
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/6405

-Andrew


On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 11:53, Mark Kempster wrote:
> Dan Monjar wrote:
> > --On Tuesday, September 02, 2003 10:06:19 AM -0400 Mark Kempster 
> > <mark at kempster.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> I'm running a Westell modem (A90-210030-04)
> > 
> > 
> > Is that the little white brick?
> 
> That's the one.
> 
> 
> >  That is the one I have now, it replaced 
> > a wider, thinner, black one... Alcatel I think.  I liked the black one 
> > 'cuz it had more blikin' lights.
> 
> I was foolish enough to think I could swap out my old blue modem
> (from what ended up being DirectTV) with the white one from BellSouth
> (naive, I know), and things completely fell apart for a day.
> 
> I figured the westell-as-shipped was designed to be plugged in directly
> to a single machine, and if you want the connection-sharing stuff, you
> were supposed to pay BS an extra $10 (or so) a month. Bah to that!
> 
> Cheers
> - mark