[TriLUG] westell usb modem drivers for linux

[Ralph Blach]

Arron,

Well, when it is in bridge mode, the Linksys firewall gets the IP address the ISP assigns to it, so there is no possibility
of communications with the Westell.  I suspect that it does have that internal ip address, but there is not way to route to
it or access it.  I really dont want to put a switch between the bridge and firewall and put yet another machine on the
network. (Which I dont have either machine).  It would really be nice if the USB interface just worked.

Chip


Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
> Ralph Blach wrote:
> 
>> Well I finally got it to work.  Here what I did on the westell router.
>> 1) in the vc configuration, i set it up for bridging
>> 2) I turned off the dhcp support
>> 3) I turned off the dns server.
>>
>> The box is now just a passthrough box, with one hitch, I have no way 
>> of managing it or moniting it  because all management is by tcpip and 
>> now it is a bridge.
>>
>> Hence, my question about usb ethenet driver for the westell
>>
>> If I could plug this in, it would be a brige on the ethenet,  but I 
>> could could be directly connected on the usb and that would be nice.
>>
> It's often the case that even in bridge mode, it maintains an IP address 
> on the "internal" Ethernet interface.  Unfortunately, because of the 
> less-than-configurable router between your actual internal subnet and 
> it's internal interface, you probably won't be able to configure the IP 
> addressing in such a fashion that you can talk to it directly.  On the 
> other hand, if you have an old box lying around to put linux on, and 
> replace that router (or if you're using a router along the lines of the 
> WRT54G, which runs Linux under the hood), you can use an additional IP 
> subnet on the external interface of the router (the "internal" interface 
> of the bridge) and be able to address the bridge when the network is 
> properly cabled up for normal operation.
> 
> Aaron S. Joyner