ADSL / Network issue when trying to use a Router

[Arcanedeath]

Hiya and thanks in advance for reading this. (it's kinda long)

I have Earthlink ADSL, w/ a static IP, but Earthlink still requires a PPPoE client login to the network so they can auththecate you. (IE requires dual auth, your username & pwd plus the static IP)

I need a broadband routing or gateway solution that will do this, currently I've been stuck using ICS and a network bridge on one PC w/ 2 NIC's to get this to work, I'd really like a more elegant solution. I have a spare PC (a Tbird 1.33Ghz w/ 512mb of DDR) that I could convert into a router if necessary, but I'd rather some consumer grade Peice of equipment like the linksys WAG54G (they say it's their only router that supports dual forms of auththencation, but it's a total peice of garbage and not avi. in the US.)

If anyone could come up w/ some suggestions it would be great, I'm open to setting up some form of BSD/Linux gateway on the spare PC if that would work or if somone knows a reliable peice of hardware that will support a network login w/ a Static IP, I'm all ears.

Thanks for any suggestions and the more the merrier.

 

[helo7050]

The LinkSys does PPoE and it will assign it the static IP address. If your using PPoE the ISP just gives you the same IP address. I'm pretty sure you will have no problems with this. I've setup a ton of Linksys in my days

 

[thriemus]

Any of the mainstream broadband routers will do this for you, netgear, linksys, draytek, d-link etc etc. Its a good idea to setup the gateway box as you can run a transparent proxy on it as well. Then if you are feeling adventurous you can run snort ids as well. Setup the linux/bsd gateway box using to nics, 1 to internal lan and the other to the broadband router and put them on different subnets as well.

 

[Arcanedeath]

The problem is that the ISP gave me a static IP but will not automaticly assign it via DHCP/PPPoE and still requires me to login to their network using the PPPoE protocal, so a normal linksys / dlink ect.. router will not work, the WAG54G will because it lets you supply login info to the ISP and assign a static IP in the router, I don't know of any other consumer grade router that will do this. Any other ideas guys?

 

[Wizkid]

What about the Satori firmware for the WRT54G?

 

[Arcanedeath]

I actualy have a WRT54G but I'm not familur w/ the Satori firmware any ideas if it could do what I need and if so where does one aquire it?

 

[cleverhandle]

I'm not sure I understand the problem.

If I follow your description, you've got a single static IP which should be assigned to the WAN side of the router. Yes?

If that's the case, then it should be assigned to the WAN interface automatically during the PPP negotiation. If it's not, I would tend to think that you've misconfigured something rather than that being the way it's supposed to be. There may be other conceivable ways to do things (I don't claim to understand the gory details of PPP), but I've never heard of a mainstream provider doing anything else.

Are you by any chance choosing an option like "I have static IP's" in a router setup screen? If so, that may be the wrong choice (counter-intuitively, yes). In the typical static-external-IP situation, the router still thinks it's getting a dynamic IP - which, technically, it is. It's just that it gets the same dynamic IP each time. The "I have static IP's" option (at least in the Zyxel where I've seen it) is for situations where the router is routing packets to public IP's on its LAN side. Typically that occurs when your service provides a block of static IP's.

 

[happyshopping007]

I'm not sure I understand the problem too.

but I think, if now that you have a static ip. you can config the route at wan side. pay attention the function is difference with PPPOE. the next thing maybe you must to do:
1. assigned the static ip
2. choice the function of wan
3. config the DSL line.(for example VPI&VCI, If it's right, the router's LCD Will light and the router can get packets.)
4. config the DHCP server
5. config DNS

If all right, than you are successful, good luck.