John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/12/2013 9:56 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> You misunderstand me: I have the router plugged into the phone co. >> router, going into my router's uplink port. > > so you have two layers of network address translation? or is one or > the other of those 'routers' set to bridge ? Not exactly: I just have my router in a different 192.168 address space than the phone company one. As I said, I plugged the "uplink" port on my router directly into one of the regular ports on their router, after setting the IP address of my router, and it just works. mark