sbc dsl and linksys firewall config issues

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Saturday 15 January 2005 05:35 pm, hanasaki wrote:

> = scenario 1 =
> linksys to the dsl modem with the modem doing the ppoe auth.
> modem gets an IP from dsl
> linksys gets an IP from modem
> pc gets an IP linksys
> can not get from the pc to the Internet

Right.  Double NAT doesn't usually work.


> = scenario 2 =
> linksys to the dsl modem with the modem being a bridge
> linksys doing the ppoe auth.
> linksys ppoe auth works and linksys gets an IP from dsl
> pc gets an IP linksys

That's how you're supposed to do it.

> browse most sites ok but seems to be slow to connect
> seems to be lower bandwidth
> some sites (hotmail/ebay) timeout

PPPoE.  Lousy system.  SBC DSL - what did you expect?

> same sites work if accessed as in scenario 1

Huh?  I thought you couldn't get from the PC to the Internet in "Scenario 1".