embarq (Centurylink) DSL Static IP

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Woodchuck <marmot at pennswoods.net> wrote in 
news:97b0e1031001041751m4e0cfacfp92911f13491539c6 at mail.gmail.com:

> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Ed  D. <lists at rensseltucky.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>       I will soon need to get a 2 static IP Embarq/Centurylink DSL
>> account going.
>> The person has a modem/router called a "660" I think may be a
>> Zyxel.
>>
>> I'm going to use an OpenBSD 4.6 system as my router/firewall.
>>
>> I've googled in an attempt to find others using OpenBSD who've
>> had experience with doing this and found nothing useful.
>>
>> I would like to use the 660 in bridge mode and have the
>> OpenBSD 4.6 system handle the logon and connection,
>> like I have my own system on my network.
>>
>> Has anybody done this with Embark/Centurylink?
>>                                     
>              Thanks,  Ed
> 
> I use embarq with dhcp if that would help.
> 
> Putting the embarq supplied modem in bridge mode was not
> a problem, you use a browser to do this.  (How stupid is that?)
> The embarq modem runs some sort of lame embedded Linux
> (version 1.x.x kernel) and has crude firewall capability (iptables,
> some NAT, very limited by a "friendly" clicky-point interface to
> a braindead wizard... so I went to bridge mode without even bothering
> with that penguin cruft).
> 
> Embarq, here in central-south Pennsylvania is just crappy service.
> My line is down 25-50% of the time, and although I pay for megabit
> I have seldom seen it dload at over maybe 100Kbit, usually more like
> 64Kbit, i.e. just above dialup speed.  I haven't called their
> customer service.  What can they possibly do?
> 
> Anyway, if my dhcp stuff is of any interest, let me know.
> 
> dave
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> 
> 
> 
OpenBSD works fine with the 660 DSL setup have many servers on their 
service. I was on Embarq before Centurylink took over and the service has 
gone down hill! I used trafshow(port) and found they are caching the web 
traffic :< (not to say anything about the 404 hijacking)As the other 
person stated you just use the bridge mode. You can either put both ip's 
on your nic or use a switch and put the ip addresses on their own server.
 Hope this helps

DRX