[ale] [OT] make dsl modem visible?

[justin caratzas]

You can put the modem in router mode  on the WAN side, but you run into
frustrating NAT issues with two 'routers' linked in series.

Pardon my ignorance, but why would you want to see the modems interface?
The road most traveled (and apparently used in this situation as well) is to
place the modem in 'bridge' mode, making it a pass-through device
(over-simplification), and using the router for any admin functionality.

justin

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Tim Watts <timtw at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On Friday 24 July 2009 9:21:36 am Louis Zamora wrote:
> > While you may have a public ip address associated with your dsl modem,
> > you should be able to hit it with 192.168.1.254. I didn't get what you
> > were trying to accomplish but recommend untangle for most everything
> > you'd want to manipulate in routing terms.
>
> Untangle looks like an interesting product but I don't see how it would
> address my situation -- see below.
>
> > Is there something you are
> > trying to do that 192.168.1.254 won't let you?
>
> Basically I want to access the web interfaces on both my modem and my
> router
> from my lan. As it stands, I can't access the modem when it's connected to
> the
> wan port of the router. This is just a home network and I'm using a LinkSys
> wrt54g router. Here's kind of a picture of what my network looks like:
>
>               |---wrt54g---|
>  | boxA |------| hub || wan |
>                  |      |
>   | boxB |-------/      \------| modem |----->telco/ISP/internet
>
> So between me (box[A-Z]) and the modem there's the router. I don't see
> anything in the router's web interface that will expose the device on the
> wan
> side. The router and modem each have distinct IPs but the modem is on a
> different physical segment (if I'm thinking about this correctly). I'm
> thinking/hoping that maybe it's just a limitation in what the web interface
> exposes and that maybe openwrt could improve on this -- or that I've missed
> something in the router's web interface. Anyone have an answer? Am I
> talking
> non-sense?
>
> >
> > On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 08:20 -0400, Tim Watts wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I was wondering if anyone knows if it's possible to make my dsl modem
> > > accessible from my lan while it's connected to the wan side of my
> router
> > > (WRT54G)? I've tried a number of configurations but no cigar. The
> closest
> > > I got was to put the modem in 'router' mode and connect it to the lan
> > > side of the router. Only problem there is I lose the port forwarding
> > > feature of the router and the modem's web interface is exposed to the
> > > Internet (despite having remote admin disabled on the modem).
> > >
> > > This is an older model of the WRT54g so OpenWRT is a possibility. Could
> > > that help?
> >
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