[H-GEN] Smoothwall and Speedtouch Modems

Greg Black gjb at gbch.net
Mon Apr 18 06:58:04 EDT 2005


On 2005-04-18, Conor Cunningham wrote:

>                  I have recently installed Smoothwall as the Gateway at 
> my father's surgery. The telstra boys came and installed the ADSL and 
> left me with a Speedtouch 530 modem. Now, I have the interent running 
> fine with the modem connected via ethernet to smoothie. The problem is, 
> and I can't seem to find any way of getting aroud this, is that the 
> modem is a DHCP server and hence assigns smoothie a local IP address. 
> 10.0.0.2 The local interface of the modem is 10.0.0.138. What I ideally 
> want, and if this can't be done with this modem, then I will need to 
> purchase something else, is for the smoothie to have a "live" ip address 
> so I can setup a VPN between my Dad's surgery and his house.

In general modems like that have an administrative interface,
usually in the form of a web server.  Access that from a
suitable directly-connected box, find the menu that controls the
DHCP server and turn it off.  If that sounds difficult, read the
on-line help or find the manual on the web.

I've done this with many different ADSL modems with their stupid
default DHCP servers, and never had a problem.

Greg




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