configuring a router behind a DSL modem and bittorrent

[Claude Jones]

I doubt my problem is FC - I apologize in advance if that's the actual case, 
but I'm hoping that amongst this vast user-base, there's someone who has 
encountered the same problem and since bittorrent is more and more a vital 
part to the acquiring of FC, maybe I'm not too off-topic. Anyhow....

My network consists of a Westell 6100 DSL modem configured as a PPPoE 
connection, presumably by Verizon, my provider - it arrived in plug-and-play 
configuration, and I did almost nothing to get it up except plug it in to a 
Windows box and run Verizon's installation disk. Behind the DSL modem is a 
Linksys WRT54G wireless router. Both are configured to get their address via 
DHCP, and both are configured to act as DHCP servers; the DSL modem gets its 
address from Verizon; on the inside it's configured as a 192.168.1.X subnet; 
my Linksys gets an address in that range, and is in turned configured to pass 
out addresses in the 192.168.2.X range. All this works well for everything 
I've tried to do - now, I'm trying to get bittorrent up, and I'm having 
problems. Presumably, the problem is that I can't configure port forwarding 
for the Westell since the only device it's seeing is the Linksys, which gets 
its address dynamically from the Westell. I remember reading here some time 
ago that the Westell had to be put into bridge mode, and then the router 
could be configured to get the address from Verizon, and forward ports - my 
question is, first, is that right? If so, does anyone have any experience 
configuring the Westell 6100 for bridge mode? Are there other ways to make 
this work? I've been reading the manuals for the two devices all afternoon, 
and I've gone to the bittorrent faq to get info, but the section dealing with 
this problem is sparse...
-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA

[taharka]

How do,

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 17:24 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
>  I doubt my problem is FC - I apologize in advance if that's the
> actual case, 
>  but I'm hoping that amongst this vast user-base, there's someone who has 
>  encountered the same problem and since bittorrent is more and more a vital 
>  part to the acquiring of FC, maybe I'm not too off-topic. Anyhow....
>  
>  My network consists of a Westell 6100 DSL modem configured as a PPPoE 
>  connection, presumably by Verizon, my provider - it arrived in plug-and-play 
>  configuration, and I did almost nothing to get it up except plug it in to a 
>  Windows box and run Verizon's installation disk. Behind the DSL modem is a 
>  Linksys WRT54G wireless router. Both are configured to get their address via 
>  DHCP, and both are configured to act as DHCP servers; the DSL modem gets its 
>  address from Verizon; on the inside it's configured as a 192.168.1.X subnet; 
>  my Linksys gets an address in that range, and is in turned configured to pass 
>  out addresses in the 192.168.2.X range. All this works well for everything 
>  I've tried to do - now, I'm trying to get bittorrent up, and I'm having 
>  problems. Presumably, the problem is that I can't configure port forwarding 
>  for the Westell since the only device it's seeing is the Linksys, which gets 
>  its address dynamically from the Westell. I remember reading here some time 
>  ago that the Westell had to be put into bridge mode, and then the router 
>  could be configured to get the address from Verizon, and forward ports - my 
>  question is, first, is that right? If so, does anyone have any experience 
>  configuring the Westell 6100 for bridge mode? Are there other ways to make 
>  this work? I've been reading the manuals for the two devices all afternoon, 
>  and I've gone to the bittorrent faq to get info, but the section dealing with 
>  this problem is sparse... 
Doe's the following link help you?

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/vz/4.+Hardware#13600

>  -- 
>  Claude Jones
>  Brunswick, MD, USA 
taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.

[Claude Jones]

On Tuesday August 29 2006 6:09 pm, taharka wrote:
>  Doe's the following link help you?
>
>  http://www.dslreports.com/faq/vz/4.+Hardware#13600 
Yes, thank you. My model DSL modem is different, but it appears that the 
principles are identical. I'll have to wait till after the household has gone 
to bed to try it, as net access is needed right now. 
-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA

[Claude Jones]

On Tuesday August 29 2006 8:25 pm, Claude Jones wrote:
>  On Tuesday August 29 2006 6:09 pm, taharka wrote:
>  > Doe's the following link help you?
>  >
>  > http://www.dslreports.com/faq/vz/4.+Hardware#13600
>
>  Yes, thank you. My model DSL modem is different, but it appears that the
>  principles are identical. I'll have to wait till after the household has
>  gone to bed to try it, as net access is needed right now. 
Taharka: I got around to trying this, and everything seemed to be OK, except I 
couldn't get out to the net. There's an additional page linked to from that 
site, and I'll have to take a look, as it is for the exceptions that don't 
just work. It turns out they had a section for my DSL Modem, and I just 
missed that on first glance. One thing that's seemingly disconcerting, is 
that you don't seem to be able to connect to the DSL modem using the web 
address once you put in in bridge mode and save. The only way I could get 
back was to reset the thing with the hardware button, and that then forced me 
to go through the whole registration process again with Verizon. But, I'm 
back to where I was. 
-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 29 August 2006 23:59, Claude Jones wrote:
> On Tuesday August 29 2006 8:25 pm, Claude Jones wrote:
> > On Tuesday August 29 2006 6:09 pm, taharka wrote:
> > > Doe's the following link help you?
> > >
> > > http://www.dslreports.com/faq/vz/4.+Hardware#13600
> >
> > Yes, thank you. My model DSL modem is different, but it appears that
> > the principles are identical. I'll have to wait till after the
> > household has gone to bed to try it, as net access is needed right now. 
For a linksys product, AFAIK you can log in and change that stuff (port 
forwarding) anytime.  If theres a disturbance in the data flow, I haven't 
noticed it.

> Taharka: I got around to trying this, and everything seemed to be OK,
>  except I couldn't get out to the net. There's an additional page linked
>  to from that site, and I'll have to take a look, as it is for the
>  exceptions that don't just work. It turns out they had a section for my
>  DSL Modem, and I just missed that on first glance. One thing that's
>  seemingly disconcerting, is that you don't seem to be able to connect to
>  the DSL modem using the web address once you put in in bridge mode and
>  save. The only way I could get back was to reset the thing with the
>  hardware button, and that then forced me to go through the whole
>  registration process again with Verizon. But, I'm back to where I was.
> --
> Claude Jones
> Brunswick, MD, USA 
-- 
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configuring a router behind a DSL modem and bittorrent [Solved]

[Claude Jones]

On Wednesday August 30 2006 12:23 am, Gene Heskett wrote:
>  For a linksys product, AFAIK you can log in and change that stuff
> (port
>  forwarding) anytime.  If theres a disturbance in the data flow, I haven't
>  noticed it.
>  
Thanks, Gene - see below - got to gets up too early to try this now, but, now 
at least, I'm on track.

>  >Taharka: I got around to trying this, and everything seemed to be
> OK,
>  > except I couldn't get out to the net. There's an additional page linked
>  > to from that site, and I'll have to take a look, as it is for the
>  > exceptions that don't just work. It turns out they had a section for my
>  > DSL Modem, and I just missed that on first glance. One thing that's
>  > seemingly disconcerting, is that you don't seem to be able to connect to
>  > the DSL modem using the web address once you put in in bridge mode and
>  > save. The only way I could get back was to reset the thing with the
>  > hardware button, and that then forced me to go through the whole
>  > registration process again with Verizon. But, I'm back to where I was. 
For the record - the instructions Taharka sent had a supplemental page link 
for problem configurations. It involved cloning the MAC address of the DSL 
modem to my router. Once this was accomplished, things started falling into 
place. One anomaly I was initially thrown by is that the DSL modem internet 
LED no longer lights up - I guess that functionality is taken over by the 
router which is what actually now logs in to the Verizon network. I had to 
reboot several PC's, and both router and modem, to get everything back up and 
working. My internet came back on this machine I'm typing on, but mail 
didn't, till after a reboot. In any event, I've learned a lot, and all is 
well. I'll move on to port forwarding tomorrow, and see if I can get 
bittorrent going, next. Thanks, again, Taharka. 
-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA