[Novalug] Verizon FIOS Question

[Chris Sykes]

Even if it is possible (uncertain if you can) to bridge the 'coax'
port to the 'wan' port and connect it as you suggest I would advise
against it. At that point you would have the external bridge
(broadband connection to built in switch ports) and internal bridge
('coax' port to the 'wan' port) on the same hardware which spans both
sides of your firewall. You are one vulnerability or configuration
typo away from exposing your internal lan to the internet.

The ideal in my opinion is still to use the ethernet from the ONT to
your own router and then setup verizon router behind that. STB doesn't
care if it is double NAT'ed and the rest of your network no
alteration.

Verizon dhcp lease times are set to two hours (or were as of the
summer when I switched to a business/static account/address) so you
need to have your router off for that long or mac spoof on your own
router.


-Chris




On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Daniel Copeland
<daniel.l.copeland at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have successfully set up a "bridge" with the actiontec router between the
> coax and internal ethernet, allowing me to have an external internet facing
> IP on my IPCOP box.  Sure, you could simply plug in your own router, but it
> will be double-natted behind the Verizon router, which sucks because of the
> actiontecs puny NAT table (World of Warcraft just trashes it completely).  I
> got most of my help in doing this from this page
> (http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r17679150-Howto-make-ActionTec-MI424WR-a-network-bridge).
> You have to make sure to have the actiontec powered off for a while or have
> Verizon release the IP so your own box can grab on off DHCP.  I do not have
> FIOS tv, so I am not sure about how to get that to work in this
> configuration, but from the research I did, apparently some people have
> gotten this to work, all you have to do is somehow provide a connection to
> the STBs from your internal LAN.  There are 2 coax connectors on the router,
> one for broadband, and another on that is simply labeled "coax" in the
> router admin page.  Perhaps bridging the internal coax to the WAN port, and
> connect the WAN to your internal LAN?
>
>