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[Weaver]

A thought, does this device use a magic URL to get into the UI required to switch to bridge mode, like the Netgear DG834 ?

[Dray]

You just configure it as a bridge in the GUI as tickmike posted here http://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php/topic,17271.msg316505.html#msg316505

This obviously means the unlocked firmware with the webgui should be used.

[Weaver]

@dray - thanks, I just couldn't see it. Too fuzzy and full of drugs to think straight.

[burakkucat]

Question about the screenshots at
    http://wiki.kitz.co.uk/index.php/Huawei_HG612

* Is the config shown that of a device acting as an IP router?

Yes.   Those screen-scrapes came from an HG612 that was (then) being used in The Cattery.

[burakkucat]

A thought, does this device use a magic URL to get into the UI required to switch to bridge mode, like the Netgear DG834 ?

No such trickery is required. 

[tickmike]

Question about the screenshots at
    http://wiki.kitz.co.uk/index.php/Huawei_HG612

I can't see anything in the UI shown in these pages that would set the device into bridge mode.

Because its not set in Bridge !. Looks like it's in PPPoA

See my screen shot
http://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17271.0;attach=19455

Do you need it in PPPoE  as well ?.
What LAN IP will you need ? so your firebrick talks to it .

[Weaver]

> What LAN IP will you need? So your Firebrick talks to it

PPPoE doesn't work like that, it doesn't use IP, so no IP addresses are needed. It just uses straight MAC addresses. And it just works straight out of the box with no config at all. This is how my existing modems (DLink DSL-320B-Z1) work, just zero-config.

[Dray]

What IP address will you use to reach the GUI or monitor the stats?

[Weaver]

> What IP address will you use to reach the GUI or monitor the stats?

I haven't given this any thought. And ordinary hosts having zero access from the main LAN is a security requirement (!). By default, ordinary hosts have no chance of accessing the admin i/f, as the Firebrick puts the modems in a separate LAN.

So any address in one of the private address ranges will do, say 192.168.1.201. This must be assigned to Ethernet port 2 of the modem. Alternatively, if this Ethernet port's address can be DHCP-assigned then that would be ideal as the assignment decision could be postponed.

[Dray]

I don't think it can be assigned dynamically, but anyway that is the LAN IP address that tickmike was asking about.

[tickmike]

I don't think it can be assigned dynamically, but anyway that is the LAN IP address that tickmike was asking about.

Yes the static LAN IP I use 192.168.0.2 as 192.168.0.1 is used by my hardware firewall.

I can use 192.168.0.2 to monitor the connection (using the LAN port 2) with the web gui and DSLstats, this has no effect on my firewall or PPPoE headers.

Then use " I've unlocked my HG612.  How do I get my linestats" on this page
http://www.kitz.co.uk/routers/hg612unlock.htm

[Weaver]

Burakkucat has pointed out to me that the config file is just XML.    The XML config is longwinded and scary-looking, so if I were feeling very energetic, I could generate a config from a vastly simplified XML source doc by using an XSL transformation. I love XSLT. :-)

If I should ever get round to this, I will of course post the relevant .xsl file up, together with a tool I wrote to run XSL transformations under Windows (using the free MSXML6 library). The tool, if I can ever find where I put it, actually is capable of running a chained pipeline if XSLT transformations, like a UNIX pipe, output to XML or arbitrary text of some sort. I'm sure that other o/s have a fairly easy way of running some XSLT engine. The WinNT tool I wrote uses a batch file and some JS.