Did you try Internet Connection Sharing or did you bridge the network
connections?

If you "share" the DTV connection the other interface would get the address
192.168.0.1 and will be come a simple DHCP server (MS calls it the DHCP
Address Allocator Service) that gives out its self as the gateway (I think
it also acts as a simple DNS forwarder). On the DLink: 
1) turn off the DHCP - it is giving out its self as the gateway.
2) change the IP address - I bet it is trying to use .1

The above would be the Microsoft answer... As for an answer for m0n0... 
1) the Soekris 4501 does not have a USB port, but the 4801 does... 
2) I am not sure m0n0 can use the USB for a network connection - I think I
saw a post about someone using a USB to Ethernet adaptor, but I'm not sure.

_________________________________
James W. McKeand


-----Original Message-----
From: David Kitchens [mailto:spider at webweaver dot com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 2:18 AM
To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject: [m0n0wall] Direct TV

Hi all,
I was at a clients place today and ran into something I've not done before.
He has a Direct TV net connection that is connected to his XP box via USB,
he previously had a cable connection and he used a DLink Cable router with
wireless AP. With the Direct TV now, his network is not able to get to the
internet. He has 3 PC's all with wireless NIC's and the one with the USB
connection also has a standard NIC which is connected to the DLink for
management. All PC's get dhcp from the dlink but I can't change the gateway
on it so the others can get to the web. The DTV connection uses a static IP
of 10.x.x.x and the dlink serves up 192.168.x.x IP's. I tried using XP's
bridging ability to connect the WAN and wireless networks with no luck.

I can hear the question now, what does this have to do with monowall? What I
would like to do is to replace the dlink with a Soekris 4501 with a Netgate
WIC and use monowall. My question is has anyone used a Direct TV web
connection with monowall and how would I get the USB connection to feed the
WAN? There is no RJ-45 socket on the DTV unit. I don't really want to setup
an entire computer for the monowall but if thats the only way I guess I
could.

Dave