Half-Bridge Help

[Pseudonym]

Hey people,
My friend has a Netgear DG834G router that is in half-bridge mode as per this post. The router is connected to his normal home adsl account and he is connecting via Windows 7 PPPoE to a separate account for downloads. The problem arises when for some reason the router goes out of half-bridge mode or the connection drops during a download and suddenly he is using the family's communal cap. Is there any way of ensuring that if that situation arises the downloads will not use the account on the router? It is a local only account with local only downloads so possibly a routing solution?
Many thanks,
Pseudonym

 

[davemc]

Na, trying to setup incomming routing on that router is too complicated for me.

What he can do is download routesentry and configure it to automatically dial both his local and his international connections and to do the routing.

The advantage is that routesentry will relentlessly keep on trying to connect, so he is bound to only use the family communial cap for a short period of time.

 

[Pada]

What davemc said is more or less your only option, by forcing local-only destinations to go only through the local-only account. However, I'm not sure what RouteSentry does when its unable to dial the local-only account - which could result in your friend's downloads to still go through the international account.

Alternatively, you could remove the gateway IP address from the Local Area Connection (or whichever interface is connected to the router). That would ensure that there isn't a default route for the traffic to use. This way he/she won't be able to access any destination, except other stuff on the LAN.
Once you've removed the gateway IP, you could dial the local-only PPPoE connection.
Since you're not using RouteSentry, you can tick the "Use default gateway on remote network" option on the local-only PPPoE connection's TCP/IP v4 properties.
This would then ensure that the traffic will be going through the local-only account by default, instead of using the international connection that your router dialed.

 

[Pseudonym]

SORTED
Thanks for your advice guys. I managed to get it sorted by: not automatically obtaining IP address, manually entering my IP settings but making the default gateway a random IP. That way I couldn't get any WAN through the router's account but could still dial from the PC.

 

[Pada]

Pseudonym, simply removing the default gateway IP address would've done the trick too

 

[Pseudonym]

But how, if I may be so noob as to ask?

 

[Pada]

Well, if you don't specify a gateway IP address, the operating system won't know which path to take for traffic outside your LAN.
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking me to explain. Its as simple as to leave the gateway IP address field blank.

 

[Pseudonym]

Oh yes, i see what you mean. I thought you where talking about removing the default gateway while automatically acquire IP is on which is impossible, my bad