Of firewalls, router and modems
I turned off the router function of our dsl modem last night. It went relatively smothly, as I've done pretty much the same thing before for my in-laws. Mine had some extra steps, as I lost the IP lease for the network hard drive in the shuffle, and I finally conluded it was better to just give it a permanent IP address outside the DHCP lease range and remap the stuff pointing to the old address. I did notice out there is an advantage to the old operating systems that I manually had to map drive using the device name - the device name doesn't change when the IP address does, so I only had to change the ftp settings. (But the software that comes with the drive and requires at least XP maps using the IP address.) Maybe I'll try manually mapping the drives witht the device name and see if that works. But it shouldn't matter with the new fixed IP address.
I did get it all set up and now have the router logging into the dsl and running the (only) NAT/firewall. Makes it much easier to connect something that needs an open port, as there is a single firewall. I think it may help on needing to reboot the modem & router to get things to connect, and should help the xbox etc. And with just the one firewall I can manually open a port and have it work (as it's not blocked by the 2nd routing/firewall).
I did get it all set up and now have the router logging into the dsl and running the (only) NAT/firewall. Makes it much easier to connect something that needs an open port, as there is a single firewall. I think it may help on needing to reboot the modem & router to get things to connect, and should help the xbox etc. And with just the one firewall I can manually open a port and have it work (as it's not blocked by the 2nd routing/firewall).