On Sun, 2019-04-14 at 17:12 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
The problem is feeding their router data through my DD-WRT router.
An ethernet port is provided which they claim work but provide no
information for doing so. They sent a "technician" a few days ago and
he knew nothing more about it than I do except he assured me it
should work but did not know how to set up both routers, tried what
he could for an hour and said if you can't make it work and call for
help, tell them to send someone else ...
Seriously? They couldn't do such a simple thing? Such complete
incompetance with a so-called tech.
Unless they've done something goofy with their hardware, it should be
easily doable just as others have said on here (put your router between
their equipment and yours, WAN side of your router facing the service
provider). That's a two-minute job.
It's not the ideal situation, but should work without doing anything
more than cable patching. And things should continue to work within
your LAN the same as it always did.
If you did things like SSH in from the outside world, or accept other
incoming connections, then you will strike problems. Their equipment
would act as a firewall. That's why people say put it into bridge
mode, then it's virtually transparent.
If you wonder whether their ethernet port is working, in itself, just
connect one of your computers directly to it, and check.
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