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Thanks again, Well thats the odd part, the DSL modem will not go to bridge mode. It either goes into router mode or dummy modem role. I am under the impression that bridge is essentially a dummy modem that handles the log on to the ISP and nothing else. There is not bridge setting on my...

Thanks a lot for this info, I'm going to try it when everyone is on lunch today. Maybe it doesn't matter, but the way the speedstream 5200 (dsl modem) handles all the static ip address is by mapping them through the NAT/NAPT interface, and when it does that, it maps say *.34 to 192.168.4.1...

Thanks Well i moved the thread over to PIX, but wouldn't doing that lose the firewall since computers would connect through the modem. Am i missing a way to have the modem server the firewall, and the firewall to provide net access to all the computers?

Hi I posted this in the wrong forum before, any ideas. In response to the answer i received, wouldn't that make us lose the safety of the firewall? If we set the dsl modem into full router mode, then computers wouldn't be connecting through the firewall, but only through the router. Am i...

Hi, I am new to using the Pix Firewall. What we need to do is setup our DSL modem in conjunction with the pix, so the pix obtains a specific IP Address. We have purchased 5 ip addresses to use in our office. *.34-*.38 and when we connect to the net we get *.33 as our gateway. According to...