[TriLUG] Westell DSL Verizon model gives dhcp address I don't want

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, John Broome wrote:
>
>> We can continue to speculate on how you *might* fix this 
>> problem, or you can call the people that *know* and find 
>> out.
>
> the person I got at tech service has never heard of 
> bridging and has been there for 5 yrs and says that if 
> they supported it, that she'd know about it and was 
> adamant that I wasn't going to be getting bridging with 
> them.

I decided to call again hoping I'd get someone different. I 
found someone who knew exactly what I was talking about (the 
person with 5 years experience had never heard of Linux). He 
said they change the modems to bridge mode all the time and 
he can't imagine why I had any problems. I'm sitting at the 
end of the phone going "oh thankyouthankyou...". It's 
amazing how the customer can be grateful just for being 
allowed to use Verizon's service.

To change over I just surfed to the httpd running on the 
modem (at 192.168.1.1) he gave me the username/passwd 
(admin/password) (I'd tried admin/admin, and combinations of 
westell/admin before calling the first time) and then walked 
me through the changeover which entailed changing to bridge 
mode in one place and turning off the modem's dhcpd in 
another place. I didn't have to use their stupid CD at all.

Once my service is turned on (tomorrow) I'll just get the 
public IP (73.x.x.x) from their dhcp server and the DSL 
modem will just be a DSL to ethernet protocol converter. 
Neato.

I just couldn't imagine moving my home network: network, 
firewall, named settings - it would have taken me a week to 
recover and get it working again.

Thanks everyone

Joe

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