Re: Was: how to reach modem on WAN port

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Anders Hagman wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have used a modem outside m0n0wall with http and syslog for some time.
> The modem has the address 192.168.1.1 in my example.
>
> 1. First I have added a secondary address with a shell command into the
> xml file.
>
> <system>
> <shellcmd>ifconfig xl0 192.168.1.2/24 alias</shellcmd>
>
> 2. Turn on outbound advanced NAT and add a rule for normal traffic and
> traffic to the modem. Use the secondary address as the target address.
> This to make HTTP to the modem work.
>
> WAN     172.16.2.0/24     ! 192.168.1.1/32     *             Normal LAN NAT
> WAN     172.16.2.0/24     192.168.1.1/32     192.168.1.2     D-Link modem

Alternatively, if the modem can be configured to use 192.168.1.2 as its
default gateway, then the second NAT rule is unnecessary.

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					Fred Wright