router congfiguration

Trying to get my router to do a direct connection.....its a westell versalink
327W. It came configured from Verizon with a routed bridge configuration.
Should I change the connection to PPPoE?
If so, I have to enter an IP address (i did ip config and it gave my
physical address as 00-xx-xx-xx-xx-1d, where xx's are numbers).....are the
four sets of two numbers what I would put in as my IP address? Then i need
my gateway, and DNS primary and secondary...and there is a box to check for
MRU Negotiation, and i can enable or disable tunneling. there are boxes to
check for bridge broadcast and bridge multicast which were checked...uncheck
them?

Greetings,

The first thing to do is to check is to see if you're behind a non-UPnP NAT which will be the
cause of not being able to make direct connections. To do so, click the Tools menu (or Alt-T
if the menu is hidden), then Options, then Connection category and wait a few seconds for it
to display the information.

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"thebigdintexas" <> wrote in message
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> Trying to get my router to do a direct connection.....its a westell versalink
> 327W. It came configured from Verizon with a routed bridge configuration.
> Should I change the connection to PPPoE?
> If so, I have to enter an IP address (i did ip config and it gave my
> physical address as 00-xx-xx-xx-xx-1d, where xx's are numbers).....are the
> four sets of two numbers what I would put in as my IP address? Then i need
> my gateway, and DNS primary and secondary...and there is a box to check for
> MRU Negotiation, and i can enable or disable tunneling. there are boxes to
> check for bridge broadcast and bridge multicast which were checked...uncheck
> them?

I am..it says "You are connected to the Internet through a non-UPnP IP
Restricted NAT. (Administrator)". However, I have UPnP enabled in the router,
and in the firewall settings.

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> The first thing to do is to check is to see if you're behind a non-UPnP NAT which will be the
> cause of not being able to make direct connections. To do so, click the Tools menu (or Alt-T
> if the menu is hidden), then Options, then Connection category and wait a few seconds for it
> to display the information.
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
> --
>
> "thebigdintexas" <> wrote in message
> news:825C6256-61CE-4822-BA64-...
> > Trying to get my router to do a direct connection.....its a westell versalink
> > 327W. It came configured from Verizon with a routed bridge configuration.
> > Should I change the connection to PPPoE?
> > If so, I have to enter an IP address (i did ip config and it gave my
> > physical address as 00-xx-xx-xx-xx-1d, where xx's are numbers).....are the
> > four sets of two numbers what I would put in as my IP address? Then i need
> > my gateway, and DNS primary and secondary...and there is a box to check for
> > MRU Negotiation, and i can enable or disable tunneling. there are boxes to
> > check for bridge broadcast and bridge multicast which were checked...uncheck
> > them?
>
>
>