nwrickert
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Geneva, IL
 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·AT&T Midwest
| reply to bevills1
Re: Westell 6100 Bridging / Unbridging problem
The result is double NAT. That is, the NAT functionality is done twice, once by the modem and once by the router. Some people think double NAT is bad.
I agree with you. I have never had a problem with double NAT. It has worked just fine. And it has the advantage that you can still easily access the modem for config and for statistics. I would leave the 6100 as a router unless there is a specific problem that needs to be solved.
There is a trivial problem that can occur. The 6100 defaults to 192.168.1.* for the LAN IPs. And some routers also use this. That gives a conflict (router WAN IP is on the same subnet as router LAN IP). However, that is easily fixed by either configuring the router to use a different range of LAN IPs, or configuring the Westell 6100 to use a different range of LAN IPs (say 192.168.2.*). This is easy to configure on Westell modem/routers and is easy to configure on most home routers. |
