[TriLUG] help with Bellsouth DSL static IP

[staylor at openfieldsolutions.com]

Point your browser to the default gateway of the router.
This is the westell modem.

You have to configure it to 'pass_through' mode.
Once it is in 'pass_through' mode (Not sure if that is what it is but it's 
something like that) then it doesn't do anything except give you physical 
access to their network.

If you don't get it on your own call Bellsouth Techsupport and ask to be 
escalated immediately to second level.
They should be able to help you.

Shawn

 




Dan <trilug at daijin.nulluser.com>
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06/26/2004 09:08 AM
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I signed up for the Bellsouth enhanced service that gives me 3Mb down and 
a 
static IP.  I've got the 3Mb but I can't seem to use the static IP.  I 
think I know what is wrong but I want to run it by the list because I know 

that there are some of you that have this thing working.

I use the Westell Wirespeed DSL modem and a Linksys firewall/router. 
Before I got the Westell I had a different modem (that got lightning 
fried).  In the original setup, before Westell, the Linksys router did the 

authentication with Bellsouth so the router got an external address.  When 

the Westell came the instructions were to have _it_ do the authentication 
and not the router.  So the Westell is what gets the external IP address. 
So I ping my static IP I am pinging the modem and not the router, which 
means all of the DMZ Stuff the Linksys offers me is useless because the 
external world never hits the router on the static IP...

Any of this make sense?  I hesitate to go back to router authentication 
because the connection with the Westell was flaky until I changed.
-- 
Dan
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