[H-GEN] Smoothwall and Speedtouch Modems

[Peter Arnold]

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> Gidday All,
> 
>                  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.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to achieve this with the 
> aforementioned hardware, and if not, can somebody recommend a modem 
> which is merely a modem and has no other bloody fancy settings?
> 
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Depending on the package you have you are most likely to have only one 
IP address assigned to your account which would pe applied to the 
outside interface of the modem. If you want to apply that IP to smoothie 
then you need to look at setting the modem up as a bridge. Note that 
smoothie will now need to do every thing that the modem does/did like 
DHCP, NAT, firewalling, ((PPPoE?) authentication etc. AFAIR there was 
something on http://www.ozcableguy.com/ on how to do this with an 
alcatel. Update: see http://www.ozcableguy.com/alcatel.html

Also, before you bridge it, you might want to check if your modem can 
act as a VPN end point.

I'm sure there's a few othe points to consider but this should get you 
going.

Cheers
Peter Arnold

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