[plug] adsl connection help

[Mike Holland]

On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Kai wrote:

> > Is this a problem?  I dont see any settings to change this. You could
> > put a port redirector on your linux box. (ipchains etc)
> 
> I have set my Billion to listen on port 81, if you want to set an
> alternative port for your Billion to listen on, go to the Admin Privelage
> section in the left hand frame and click Misc Configuration, have a look at
> the right hand side frame, around the middle and you'll see HTTP server
> port - change that to whatever you want, save the changes and give the
> router a reboot from the web interface.
> I have set the virtual services section to redirect port 80, and other
> needed ports, to my Linux box.
> 
> I hope that's not being to vague.

:-) All clear now.
The behaviour isnt terribly surprising. Its redirecting packets from the 
ppp1 device, but not from eth0. (Does the Billion run linux internally? 
It sure looks like a similar unix.)
  As I said, I cant see a way to change that. There doesnt seem to be 
anything in the manual about redirecting ports on the ethernet side.
 It makes sense that the firewall rules apply only to one interface.
NAT is asymmetric. 
   If you need to work around this, you could do something on the 
Linux box with iptables or equivalent.

HTH, Mike.

P.S. If you find a way to get a bash prompt from the router, let me know.
That'd be cool.

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