[plug] adsl connection help

[Mike Holland]

On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Kai wrote:

> > > I'm prolly missing something really simple with my set-up too but, I am
> > > using my Billion modem in router mode and I have to specify proxies if I
> > > want to view anything on my Linux machine using the external IP address,
> > > using my internal 192 addresses works fine.

The "view anything on my Linux machine" is way too vague. 

> Yeah, billion is set as default route.
> I'm using Red Hat 8 (no suggestions to change to Debian or BSD pls),
> browsing from machines on my internal network to my linux box is fine using
> an internal IP address, browsing from inside to my external IP I need to use
> a proxy. I have asked some other people and they can browse to my external
> IP fine.

Will try to answer, since I have the same router.

OK, I am guessing you are running a
web server, and redirecting port 80 from your Billion modem/router
to a linux box. Your 'external IP' belongs to the billion, and its not 
redirecting port 80 for internal packets, just packets from the ADSL side.
In fact, the billion runs its own web-server for admin purposes.
Is this a problem?  I dont see any settings to change this. You could
put a port redirector on your linux box. (ipchains etc)

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