On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:17:56 +1100 Holroyd Engineering Services wrote: > I have a delema with my adsl. It was supplied with the dsl-300+ which > bind to a mac address of the pc connected to it. Fine for Windows > stuff because I can fire up a browser and re bind to another nic but > my small floppy based router (bering leaf) have not got a browser and > its not even gui. So I'm thinking of putting a small footprint linux > distro that have a browser (I think it need to support java) so I can > bind the adsl modem to the mac address of the box I used as a > firewall/router.
Again, I'm not familiar with the GUI tools D-Link give out, but if a console isn't enough then you may be able to access the modem from your internal network using masquerading. Assuming the IP address on the modem is 192.168.1.1, and that the interface on the router is set up properly, a command like: ipchains -A forward -d 192.168.1.1 -j MASQ or with iptables: iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -d 192.168.1.1 -j MASQUERADE Make sure the router is set as the default gateway, and you should be able to ping the modem from your LAN. Completely untested, but with any luck the configuration tools will work goodly with masqing and you can configure the modem from your desktop. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
