| reply to h3lix0
Re: Uverse DSL With Static IPS WORST ISP EVER! First of all, thanks for posting the rant.  I just ordered Uverse and would have been pissed if I found out about this after my 30day money back period. Has anyone (specifically x51) tried h3lix0's solution? It seems that if this does indeed turn the 2wire box into a plain IP router then it should address the problem.
I've got a slightly different solution if the above doesn't work... x51, you mentioned you had set up linux as a gw/fw. If so, then if you are using a recent distro of fedora, you can try iproute2 and the macvlan kernel mod. It seems to have been introduced sometime between fc7 and fc10. Not sure about other distros. I'm sure you can download the latest kernel and iproute. I wasn't able to get the necessary iproute version via yum on fc7 with stock repo's so I didn't try very hard. This would allow you to configure a/multiple link/s (shows up as an interface via ifconfig) on a single ethernet interface each with a different mac and ip. I tried it out and it sends and responds to arps with the correct ip/mac combos. Seems like this would allow you to build a linux gw/fw/nat box that would do exactly what you want without having to resort to vm's.
I'll have to play with some of this myself once my service is installed. |
