@Lycan, if that was directed at me, that serves no good since the modem is a siemens DSL gateway. putting it in bridged mode disables the ATM port. and the siemens is now a router.

opposite of what I want to do, and I want to maintain all ethernet ports.
I guess what I could do is diable the siemens DHCP service and give the dlink wan port the 192.168.2.2 address and the LAN 192.168.2.3 and have the dlink serve the IP addresses and then route port 80 in teh siemens to 192.168.2.2? Not sure if this will be effective though, I'm still thinking typing in the domain will try to access the seimens configuration.