Question : How do I connect a Linksys Router to a Broadxent 8120 configured as a Bridge?

I upgraded my ADSL servce and they provisioned me with a new ADSl Broadxent 8120 router. It works perfectly as a router with a static IP address but is not well designed to host a webserver.

After a lot of reserch on the Net I discovered that it is recommended to reconfigure the Broadxent as a bridge and then put a router (line a Linksys 4 port) behind the bridge so that port forwarding becomes feasible.

I have successfully reconfigured the Broadxent as Bridge. I pluged the Broadxent static IP port (#1) into the WAN port of the Linksys. There does not seem to be any handshake between teh two devices and I cannot ping the bridge.

Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I can access the Net through my Lan via the Linksys router and Broadxent bridge?
Thanks,
Peter

Answer : How do I connect a Linksys Router to a Broadxent 8120 configured as a Bridge?

That sounds like a good place to start.  Route the traffic to the Linksys and then port forward any port 80 (or any other server ports like 21,25,110, etc.) to your server from there.  When you speak of the 216.220.114.199 address, I assume this is your Public address, and the Broadxent is picking this up on its Wan interface.  This is not the way a true Bridge works, as it seems that it is using NAT and normal routing to do its packet transfers to the internal LAN...  Just thought I would throw that into the mix...  :)

Regarding splitting, that is done all the time since so many experts come into help.  Here is the link to how:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/help.jsp#hi19