[ILUG] dsl & router setup ?

[Ronan Cunniffe]

Apologies, just realised I replied offlist

Ronan Cunniffe wrote:

> Declan Grady wrote:
>
>> The adsl2 box is a "Zyxel Prestige 660RU ADSLl2+ Ethernet/USB Gateway"
>>
>> All I have done is change the variables in my iptables script to the 
>> new external IP.
>>
>> It seems a bit more complex than the previous setup .. should I be 
>> setting my adsl box into a different mode and give my firewall's eth1 
>> the external IP ?
>
>
> Hmm, You might not be able to - I know that the Zyxel Prestige 643 
> *won't* function as a dumb DSL modem, only as a NAT router, or as a 
> network bridge.  Read your documentation very carefully.  Twice.
>
> If a router, then none of your machines will contain a reference to 
> the public IP address.
>
>> 2. If I want to be able to aceess my internal LAN from the outside 
>> world, using doze clients, (!) am I looking at VPN, or some other 
>> means ?
>> i.e. I want a secure method of accessing my internal lan through my 
>> firewall, to get at the internal mail server (pop3 & smtp) and 
>> possibly the samba server.
>
>
>
> The Zyxel should have a section where you set port redirection - e.g. 
> "port 22 goes to 192.168.1.3", "port 80 to 192.168.1.5", etc.
>
> If the only thing you're connecting to the Zyxel is your fw, turn off 
> the dhcp server and give eth1 a static 192.168.1.x address.
>
> HTH,
>
> Ronan
>