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JohnAPremium
join:2003-09-16
Pittsburgh, PA
3 edits | reply to seeingwhite
Re: Verizon Westell 7500 - How do I set it to bridge mode? As for me only, I understand. I personally wouldn't cripple the pfsense, just to be able to look through it, rather then just swap a PC connection to look around it.
There was 1 method of doing what you want, posted here in the past. I can't recall how it was done, or the poster that presented it. Maybe someone else has it book/site marked, but I don't.
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edit: Here it is. ChrisDAT's post in this thread. Search to locate it was: modem stats router
»Get Modem Stats while Hooked Up to Router?
He hasn't posted in over 6 months, so I hope you can make heads or tails out of what you find from him. He posted it several times so looking farther into the search results may produce a second iteration of the same information, stated in a different way. I stopped at the first instance.
His profile shows a recent log in here. If you get stuck try IM to him.
The premise, as I understand it is: You make the PPPoE connection out of the router backwards into the switch of the router/ out of the switch into the LAN port of the modem. That makes the modem's interface available on the switch to the connected PCs. The PCs look directly at the interface to see the modem, while all their other traffic goes through the router, where they get their IPs.
Let us know how it works out. | |
| JohnA,
Thanks for that link. It looks like he was trying to use the same subnet for the modem and router. I am using different subnets, which according to the thread, should work without further configuration.
My modem: 192.168.1.X
my pfsense firewall: 192.168.2.X
So it looks like I'm back to square one, especially since I should be able to access 192.168.1.1 without any adjustments. In other words, it should "just" work. *sigh*
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