I wanted to set up my Verizon Westell modem so that my router has the IP address and does all the networking functionality.\u00a0 This makes administering my network easier.\u00a0 After searching the internet, I found that lots of people had this problem but there didn’t seem to be any clear answers.\u00a0 After spending a couple hours on the phone with tech support, I finally got it working.\u00a0 Here’s my setup:<\/p>\n
phone line–>modem–>router–>wifi\/ethernet
\nmodem: Verizon DSL Westell 6100F (but any modem with the Verizon firmware should work)
\nrouter: Asus WL-520gu with DD-WRT firmware (but any router should work)<\/p>\n
Here’s how I did it: I wanted to set up my Verizon Westell modem so that my router has the IP address and does all the networking functionality.\u00a0 This makes administering my network easier.\u00a0 After searching the internet, I found that lots of people had this problem but there didn’t seem to be any clear answers.\u00a0 After spending a couple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,25,46,101,123,154,161],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-bridge","tag-bridging","tag-dd-wrt","tag-modem","tag-router","tag-verizon","tag-westell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1. Use a pencil or other pointy object to hold the reset button on the modem for 30 seconds.\u00a0 This will restore the factory configuration so we can start fresh.
\n2. Connect the ethernet port of the modem directly to your computer.\u00a0 Make sure your computer is set up to acquire an IP address through DHCP.
\n3. In an internet browser, open 192.168.1.1\/verizon\/redirect.htm .\u00a0 This will bring you to a page that allows you to disable redirection.\u00a0 Click the “disable” button.
\n4. Browse to 192.168.1.1 .\u00a0 Now we need to set up the modem for bridge mode.\u00a0 Click “My Network” at the top, then “Network Connections” on the side.\u00a0 Click the “edit” icon for “Broadband DSL”. and then click the “edit” icon for “VCs”.\u00a0 This will bring you to a page that allows you to configure the bridging.\u00a0 Make sure that “Protocol” is set to “Bridge” and “Bridge mode” is set to “Bridge”.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Make sure it’s not<\/strong> set to “Routed bridge”.\u00a0 That’s not what we want.\u00a0 Then click to apply changes, but don’t let the modem restart yet.\u00a0 We still have to change one more thing.
\n5. Click the “advanced” button at the top of the webpage.\u00a0 Then click the “Private LAN” link.\u00a0 The first checkbox should say something like “Enable DHCP server”.\u00a0 Uncheck that.\u00a0 We don’t want the modem dishing out IP addresses.\u00a0 Then click “apply” to save.
\n6. We’ll need to turn off the modem now.\u00a0 Turn it off.\u00a0 Turn of your router too.\u00a0 When we turn the modem back on, we won’t be able to connect to it any more to configure it.\u00a0 Unplug the cable connecting your modem to your computer and plug it into your router’s WAN port.\u00a0 At this point, I needed to call Verizon support to tell them to release my IP address.\u00a0 If you don’t do this, your modem will still try to take the IP address.\u00a0 I think<\/em> you could get by without calling support by waiting a few days, but most likely you want internet now<\/strong>. =)\u00a0 After tech support is sure that the IP is released, power on your modem.\u00a0 Wait for the modem’s “DSL” light to turn solid green.\u00a0 Then turn on your router.\u00a0 If all went well, your router should now have an IP address given from Verizon.\u00a0 If not, read step 7.
\n7. (optional)\u00a0 If your router didn’t automatically get the new IP address, there’s a chance that it wasn’t configured the way we need it.\u00a0 I have my router configured to get the WAN through “Automatic Configuration – DHCP”.\u00a0 Yours might be different, depending on your router type.\u00a0 Then, you’ll likely want your router to be a DHCP server for your LAN–by doing this, any computer that connects to your network will be able to get an IP address and get on the internet right away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"