On 29/05/13 3:29 PM, Craig Sanders wrote:
what sort of router are you using?
if it's running linux, you may be able to do port-forwarding or run a simple http/https proxy so that connections from your LAN (i.e. your PC) to a particular port on your router get forwarded to port 80 or 443 on your d-link modem. That isn't an option. It can't even see the d-link. The Ethernet interface doesn't get an IP address, only the PPP interface gets an IP when PPPoE comes up. Pings get rejected by a router further downstream, so it's obvious that they're not going where I want. I can't see a way of accessing the d-link without a switch (or using a totally different router).
otherwise, if you have a linux machine that's on 24/7 (or at least, on whenever you want internet access), you might want to think about getting rid of the router and using your linux machine instead. or replace the router with a low-power linux laptop (built-in UPS but mediocre networking) or mini-ITX machine (good NICs, wifi). No Linux machines running 24x7 atm, and those available aren't ideal - Raspberry Pi and a couple of EeePC 900 netbooks running Debian - the days of a desktop running 24x7 here are long gone. Would take quite a bit of work to replace, as I'm also running VoIP (with one analog phone and at least a couple of IP handsets, as well as QoS on the router.
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