Re: how to reach modem om WAN port

Lee Sharp <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.m0n0wall
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 01/12/2011 04:45 PM, Egbert Jan van den Bussche wrote:

> One solution I can think of is assigning a secondary addresss on the WAN
> port. There is no way how to do that, though... Is it possible at all,
> via the exec interface perhaps? I would be very grateful if somebody has
> a working solution for me.

You can enable sysctl commands in the config file that will use ifconfig 
to multi-home.  You may also have to set up some routing.  Or, you can 
stick in another nic, and plug it back into the WAN segment.

			Lee
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