[TriLUG] Is BellSouth DSL service better than Time Warner Cable connection

[William Schulz]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:20:20AM -0400, Greg Brown wrote:
> This brings up yet another question about Sprint and DSL.  They don't 
> seem
> to offer a layer 2 device like the cable modem companies do, rather a 
> router
> which, I imagine, has the publicly routable IP address on the outside 
> then it
> probably barfs back private IPs on the "lan" side via DHCP.  Is this 
> how the
> system works?  Is the Sprint DSL router pre-configured for NAT?  Which 
> IP
> ranges does it use by default?  Does the Sprint router support more than
> one IP address on the LAN side?  Can the router be configured to pass 
> ports
> though the router to a device behind the router (specifically I'm 
> thinking of
> ssh here)?

Sprint has directions on their site for converting your
router/modem/whatchamacallit to bridge mode.  It's a trivial process and
is well documented.

S