DSL Modem using PPPOE and WIFI

[Kevvie]

Hi,

hope there is some solution somewhere.

I have a DSL-2640U Router. I want to configure it to allow PPPOE dialups (for the employees with their own adsl accounts), which I believe is bridge mode, and WIFI to also have a internet connection. So I thought if I could get the bridge mode setting and the other setting for the wifi to use, ie. one WAN setting for Bridge Mode and one WAN setting for not bridged, it could work. Failed at that one. Is it possible to do it ? Or possibly connecting another wifi router to the main router (main=where the DSL line plugs into).

 

[Pada]

Hi Kevvie,

That modem does support PPPoE Relaying/Half-Bridge mode (setting is called "Bridge PPPoE Frames Between WAN and Local Ports"), which should allow LAN (or perhaps even WiFi) clients to dial their own PPPoE connections via the router.

PPPoE Relaying/Half-Bridge mode is for when you want your router to dial the default ISP account, that anyone can use without the need to dial his/her own ISP account. The downside to this is that you'll have Internet access even when you don't dial your own account.

By the sound of things, you simply want to Bridge the ADSL port to both the LAN & WiFi clients, so that anyone who wants Internet access will need to dial their own PPPoE connection. This may be a problem for phones though.
For this bridging to work, simply create a Bridge WAN connection, and delete the others. the Bridge interface will have to have VPI/VCI as 8/35, otherwise the PPPoE connections won't work.