Using PPPoE and Bridged Mode on Router ?

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Hey All

I thought I saw a post about this a whilst back, but now can't seem to find it.

Is it possible to run a combination of the two on one router, i.e. let the router establish the WAN DSL connection for the network, but at the same time have the router in bridged mode, to enable individual pc users to use the dsl dial-up function on the pc, to establish their own connections? This would allow me to have the router establish a DSL connection for one ISP, and the user to dial-up using another ISP, over the same router, which would be very handy.

Any comments appreciated.
 
Not possible.

You can, however, set the router up for bridged mode, and have a proxy firewall running - which will handle the rest of the networks. Note that the router MUST NOT be separate from the rest of the network.

Rest of the PC's which need to authenticate by themselves - set up with static IP and have them connect via their dial-up connections.

Unless somebody's got a better idea. :)
 
Hmm not gonna allow me to have multiple pc's access a 1 concurrent connection account that way.

The reason for wanting to do this, was to have my IS local account on via the router for all to use, and then for international access use a dial-up account. Well if it can't be done I'll have to trash that IS local account, the server with no name has useless dl speeds, and to only have one user able to do anything with that account, it's pretty pointless - LOL @ 189 MB dl'ed in 7 hours...waste of time.
 
MFour said:
Hey All

I thought I saw a post about this a whilst back, but now can't seem to find it.

Is it possible to run a combination of the two on one router, i.e. let the router establish the WAN DSL connection for the network, but at the same time have the router in bridged mode, to enable individual pc users to use the dsl dial-up function on the pc, to establish their own connections? This would allow me to have the router establish a DSL connection for one ISP, and the user to dial-up using another ISP, over the same router, which would be very handy.

Any comments appreciated.
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This is possible. I have this setup using a vanilla Marconi router. You just need to log on to your router via say Internet Explorer and configure it there. If I recall correctly, the address is http://10.0.0.2
 
Ah thanks Syzyg, the questions is, what are the settings I need to use?
 
The_Librarian said:
Not possible.
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It is possible with some routers. My new D-Link 2640U is set to the normal PPPoE thing, and the laptop can access international pages over wifi. The other PC dials up local only via a CAT5 cable, and can't access international pages. I don't see a explicit half-bridge option so I assume that the D-Links only have half-bridge and Bridge.

Haven't managed to get routesentry working with this though. Plus I think it can only handle 1 of these funky half-bridge connections plus the normal mode at a time cause it refuses to create a second dial-up connection. (Even after WAN endpoints=2)

MFour said:
Ah thanks Syzyg, the questions is, what are the settings I need to use?
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I just set it up normally like the ISP told me and then found that it can also accept dial-ups on the side.:cool:
 
MFour said:
Hmm not gonna allow me to have multiple pc's access a 1 concurrent connection account that way.

The reason for wanting to do this, was to have my IS local account on via the router for all to use, and then for international access use a dial-up account. Well if it can't be done I'll have to trash that IS local account, the server with no name has useless dl speeds, and to only have one user able to do anything with that account, it's pretty pointless - LOL @ 189 MB dl'ed in 7 hours...waste of time.
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I do just that using Telkom's 5102G router. You need to select PPoE/PPoA under the "Encapsulation" settings and activate the Bridge interface under the "PPoE/PPoA" settings
 
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Ah thanks for the answers guys!

I will definately try this out later. I have a D-Link 504-T Router/modem, and not sure if it will allow this, but will check as soon as I get home.
 
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