Firewall/NAT

If anyone can help... please it would be greatly appreciated. I have a VSAT setup and the modem from the ISP already has a DHCP Server in it. I can enable it or disable it. I have Mono after it, a few switches after that, and then the Hosts. The issue is i would like to use the DHCP server on the modem and use Mono as a "passthrough", just so i can use the firewall/ trafficshaper ability. The reason why i want to keep the DHCP in the modem is simply because the modem is not near me at all and if i need to reset it or do maintenance through the web GUI or telnet i cannot because its on a 10.11.110.xx net from the ISP and i have no clue how to configure Mono to either access that net from 192.168.22.xx or use the OPT interfaces. so why is this in the firewall section... because i have followed the directions from chapter 14 in the mono handbook and it seems like my firewall stuff is not right. Can someone please shed some light on this for me?

let me be the first to say that the 10.x.x.x/8 network that you stated your modem is dishing out is not from your isp, anything in that range would be impossible to come from the isp because they are private ip address, they do not exist on the internet, allong with the 172.16.x.x/16, 192.168.x.x/24 and 127.0.0.0/8 networks.

what you need to do is put a static route to your modem in your configuration, OR, make your modem a passthru device, so then your wan interface will get a REAL internet ip, and you will never have to worry about problems again, and if you just so happen to have a problem once its all up and running, just power cycle your modem and router, and you'll be fine.





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