Westell 2100 questions

[Philip J. Koenig]

I need to setup someone on the east coast who will be using
Verizon DSL. I'm not familiar with how they do things because
SBC is the dominant ILEC here.

Verizon is now shipping the Westell 2100 series to DSL customers.
This model has both USB/Ethernet, and according to Westell
literature has built-in PPPoE and a "firewall".

Since I already bought another router to use with this, does anyone
know exactly how the Westell's PPPoE function works, and if I
can disable it? Westell mumbles something about a "PPPoE shim"
on their website, if I recall correctly.. I have no idea what
this is. I would think it works just like PPPoE on any other
hardware device, but that information makes it seem different.

Same for the firewall - I'd rather just disable it since I don't
really need it. Westell's website only has extremely topical
literature and documentation for the products, no details to
speak of, and I'm not holding my breath for useful technical
details from Verizon. :-)

Thanks..

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[TJM]

Take a look at these links. The first will explain how to put the Westell in
a Bridged Ethernet mode, and the second how to use a Linksys router (or any
similar) to provide the firewall, routing and PPOE functions. I use this
setup and it works fine.

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/6096

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/6323

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[John D Loop]

Most of these routers will simply bridge pppoE packets that hit them from
the Ethernet side.
So it looks like a simple ADSL modem if you run a PPPoE client on your PC -
NTS, etc, or XP's built-in pppoE client. [don't forget ICF].
If you run straight ethernet on your PC - DHCP to the Westell, the Westell
will be a router and
will route your packets. Thus you need to put username/passwd in the
Westell.
Pretty neat, actually, huh?
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[Lewis Engel]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:19:38 -0700, Philip J. Koenig
<See_email_@ddress_below.This_one_is.invalid> wrote:

>
>I need to setup someone on the east coast who will be using
>Verizon DSL. I'm not familiar with how they do things because
>SBC is the dominant ILEC here.
>
>Verizon is now shipping the Westell 2100 series to DSL customers.
>This model has both USB/Ethernet, and according to Westell
>literature has built-in PPPoE and a "firewall".
>
>Since I already bought another router to use with this, does anyone
>know exactly how the Westell's PPPoE function works, and if I
>can disable it? Westell mumbles something about a "PPPoE shim"
>on their website, if I recall correctly.. I have no idea what
>this is. I would think it works just like PPPoE on any other
>hardware device, but that information makes it seem different.
>
>Same for the firewall - I'd rather just disable it since I don't
>really need it. Westell's website only has extremely topical
>literature and documentation for the products, no details to
>speak of, and I'm not holding my breath for useful technical
>details from Verizon. :-)
>
>Thanks..

The 2100 for Verizon is a custom version and is a bridge modem only.
There is no router function.

Lewis

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"Lewis Engel" <lewis...@example.net.invalid> wrote in message
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It depends on the firmware build you have, but perhaps the Verzion one is
bridge only. I've seen some of these builds where there is a built-in
router as well and it's a cheap NAT which is about the only router function
in it.

[Philip J. Koenig]

In article <fQJbb.12706$iO.1...@bignews5.bellsouth.net>, t...@cb360.com (TJM)
writes...

> Take a look at these links. The first will explain how to put the Westell in
> a Bridged Ethernet mode, and the second how to use a Linksys router (or any
> similar) to provide the firewall, routing and PPOE functions. I use this
> setup and it works fine.
>
> http://www.dslreports.com/faq/6096
>
> http://www.dslreports.com/faq/6323

Thanks, those look very useful. Westell doesn't appear to provide any
sort of user manual for the 2100 on their own website.