Netgear DG632 adsl router

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Had a shufti at this wee beastie, and wasted 1 hour on it, trying to get it to work with Smoothwall.

I made sure the line and ADSL account was working by setting up the account on the router itself, and browsing the Net from a windows PC.

Then I changed the router to "modem" and added a PPPoE connection to Smoothwall, with the correct account settings.

Smoothwall keeps on dialling, and then fails the connection.

Anybody have any ideas on extra settings which I need to set on the router itself?

For now I've managed to get it working, but would like to know other people's experiences with this setup.

Regards

Libs
 
The_Librarian said:
:mad:

Had a shufti at this wee beastie, and wasted 1 hour on it, trying to get it to work with Smoothwall.

I made sure the line and ADSL account was working by setting up the account on the router itself, and browsing the Net from a windows PC.

Then I changed the router to "modem" and added a PPPoE connection to Smoothwall, with the correct account settings.

Smoothwall keeps on dialling, and then fails the connection.

Anybody have any ideas on extra settings which I need to set on the router itself?

For now I've managed to get it working, but would like to know other people's experiences with this setup.

Regards

Libs
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may i ask what you are trying to achieve?

i have many DG632 routers.... maby i can help
 
Albert

What I'm trying to achieve is to initiate a successful PPPoE connection from Smoothwall. The Smoothie must initiate and dial the connection, and not the router. (The router is in modem mode).

At one stage or another, the client will want to host an FTP server on a dynamic DNS adress, and I want everything to be ready when that happens.

At the moment I have got it working by assigning a DHCP address to the RED interface on the Smoothie, so it is a double-NAT configuration, hardly desirable.

What other information do you require?

Regards

Libs
 
The_Librarian said:
Albert

What I'm trying to achieve is to initiate a successful PPPoE connection from Smoothwall. The Smoothie must initiate and dial the connection, and not the router. (The router is in modem mode).

At one stage or another, the client will want to host an FTP server on a dynamic DNS adress, and I want everything to be ready when that happens.

At the moment I have got it working by assigning a DHCP address to the RED interface on the Smoothie, so it is a double-NAT configuration, hardly desirable.

What other information do you require?

Regards

Libs
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okay may i ask why you are using Smoothwall ? any specific reason?
 
may i suggest the following. you set your router to do the connection. (in router mode) you get a linux box there with 2 netw cards. one to router, one to hub/switch/network. the linux box handles the DNS, ftp, mail, samba... whatever else you want...
this is a very cheap setup (linux = free and simple to set up, so is dyndns)
 
Albert

Have you successfully initiated a PPPoE connection from a Linux box, and if so, how did you do it?

That's what I want to achieve here.

BTW - Smoothwall is a Linux-based dedicated firewall.

Regards

Libs
 
The_Librarian said:
Albert

Have you successfully initiated a PPPoE connection from a Linux box, and if so, how did you do it?

That's what I want to achieve here.

BTW - Smoothwall is a Linux-based dedicated firewall.

Regards

Libs
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Ja but why must linux initiate the connection?
 
router <== Not in DHCP mode ***connected to*** Smoothie in DHCP mode
Smoothie must have static IP address
route port 21 from the router to go to static IP address of Smoothie

stop me if that is confusing...

Bob is uncle and aunt sally is my ho
 
The netgear modems doesn't support PPPoE Bridged Mode... You can't do the PPPoE Connection on a device behind the router.

I'm more than likely replacing my netgear next month cuz of this exact issue.
 
savage said:
The netgear modems doesn't support PPPoE Bridged Mode... You can't do the PPPoE Connection on a device behind the router.

I'm more than likely replacing my netgear next month cuz of this exact issue.
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Netgear can do bridged mode. I have a DG834G in bridged mode....
 
savage said:
The netgear modems doesn't support PPPoE Bridged Mode... You can't do the PPPoE Connection on a device behind the router.

I'm more than likely replacing my netgear next month cuz of this exact issue.
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the netgear can do just about anything dude. seriously you just need to set it up right.
 
albert123 said:
the netgear can do just about anything dude. seriously you just need to set it up right.
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Maybe he meant that the netgear, when used as a router and not an adsl modem, connected to an adsl modem, can't use it to dial via the router to the modem and make it connect.
 
AcidRaZor said:
Maybe he meant that the netgear, when used as a router and not an adsl modem, connected to an adsl modem, can't use it to dial via the router to the modem and make it connect.
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okay please explain to me though why it is such a problem if the router initiates the adsl connection??
 
albert123 said:
okay please explain to me though why it is such a problem if the router initiates the adsl connection??
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It doesn't know where to send the data to.

If you have the following setup :

PC -- > Netgear Router (with DHCP) --> ADSL Modem --> Internet

And you dial up via the PC, the modem theoretically connects, but doesn't know who to send the data back to (your PC)

If you have the following setup (like I explain you should have) :

PC --> Smooth Linux thing (static IP,with DHCP) --> Netgear Router (without DHCP) --> Internet

Then when the "internet" responds to the modem, it would route the call to the static IP address of the linux server, which would know which IP (because it's DHCP) it needs to send the data to.

This way, you can setup an FTP server, and let all port 21 traffic go to the Linux thing. Or, easier, setup the router as the gateway on the DHCP settings on the smoothwall firewall. That way every PC connected on the network has direct access to the internet, but when a FTP traffic comes in from the internet, is routed from the router to the smoothwall firewall thing
 
AcidRaZor said:
If you have the following setup (like I explain you should have) :

PC --> Smooth Linux thing (static IP,with DHCP) --> Netgear Router (without DHCP) --> Internet
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and what is the problem with doing this with the netgear?
 
savage said:
because the amount of control and functionality in these routers suck?
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i think the aim is to let linux do all the "functionality" that you want, and not the router? so basically the router doesnt route then, but the linux routes....
 
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