[ILUG] OT - eircom netopia ADSL modems firmware upgrade

[Kae Verens]

Shane McLaughlin wrote:

>Solution:
>This guy here - http://www.haviker.co.uk/netopia.html - had similar
>issues and upgraded his firmware to the standard netopia one and it
>worked.
>
>Has anyone here done this? updated the firmware on their eircom modem?
>Do any of you have  a suggestion to where i could look for more info
>(an online forum/mailing list/group etc. ) discussing general Irish
>broadband issues? I don't want to turn my new router into an expensive
>paperweight and am looking for info on what steps were needed.
>  
>
a simpler way would be to set the router up to forward everything to one 
specific machine, then you can set up whatever rules you want on that 
machine without worrying about breaking the router.

in my own setup, that involved filling in the "default server" in the 
Nat section of the router config.

Kae