Grant wrote: <snip snip snip>
I'd like it to behave that way as much as possible so my Gentoo router can handle as many of the router duties as possible. I've disabled the Westell's firewall. What other types of things should I look for in the Westell's configuration screen to disable? Is there anything that might prevent this modem/router from behaving like a modem for all intents and purposes so my Gentoo router can behave like a router connected to a modem?
Some routers have a "DMZ Port" or "DMZ Host" option that will make the router automatically forward all ports to the machine configured on that port. If you like, you can even disable things like name serving and internal DHCP and let your Gentoo router handle those (if you followed the Home Router guide and used dnsmasq). If you have no Windows boxes on your network, you can safely disable WINS and/or NetBIOS name resolution.
Ryan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
