[ale] BellSouth DSL setup

[Geoffrey]

Marvin the Martian wrote:
> J. Cary Howell wrote:
> 
> 
>><rant>
>>I loathe Bellsouth, namely because of all the port blocking they do on
>>their network -- supposedly to protect "me".  Bah!  They ain't bright
>>enough to troubleshoot a PPoE connection on anything except windows and
>>not sure they are bright enough to do that either, so I don't need their
>>port blocking protection.  Kinda why we have iptables, firewalls, et.
>>al.
>></rant>
>> 
>>
> 
> I've not had any trouble with any blocked ports- since I put the 
> modem/router Hellsouth sent me into "bridge" mode.  IOW's the 
> modem/router doesn't have NAT or dhcpd enabled, it doesn't log-in or 
> start a pppoe session, it just passes through signals either way and 
> sits there quietly blinking.
> 
> This is the Westell 1600 they're giving out nowadays to home 
> subscribers, but I'm sure any other dsl router they provide can be 
> simularly configured.

Not if you're on fiber, all you have access to is a jack that you
connect directly to a ethernet network device.  No modem, no device at 
all.  No options there, although you must have a device that talks pppoe 
so as to negotiate the connection.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey