From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.28] (account lgrosenthal [192.168.100.28] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2202544 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:47:54 -0500 Message-ID: <4B7361C9.7010302@2rosenthals.com> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:47:53 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090827 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.18 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Netgear WGR614L References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 02/10/10 05:49 pm, Will Honea thus wrote : > ** Reply to message from "Lewis G Rosenthal" > on Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:54:27 -0500 > > > >> Hey, Will, Norm... >> >> On 02/10/10 04:04 pm, Will Honea thus wrote : >> >>> ** Reply to message from "Norm Metcalf" on >>> Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:53:51 -0700 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> Thanks. The Actiontec GT724WGR will open Port 465 only when using NAT >>>> only, it won't open with any of the three levels of firewall. Actiontec >>>> support says that this a deliberate design. >>>> >>>> >>> Another plus for the older Actiontec GT701WG and GT704WG units! They have 5 >>> levels for the firewall: OFF, LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH and CUSTOM. I run mine at >>> CUSTOM. I've been buying up the ones Qwest used for their DSL service for >>> years at $10 - $20 each just because they are so flexible. >>> >>> One thing you might try is to telnet to the router then manually insert a rule >>> via iptables - I've used that for a couple of odd firewall cases just as a test >>> and it works here. You'll lose that on a re-boot but I only boot the routers >>> once in a blue moon anyway. >>> >>> >>> >> Can't you add that to the init script? >> >> Quick Google... >> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22400670-ActionTec-GT724WGR-Mapping-multiple-WAN-IPs-to-my-LAN >> mentions /etc/init.d/rcS, however re-mounting the fs as read/write seems >> to lead to a permissions error in that model. Still, there ought to be >> some way to store that firewall configuration. >> > > I haven't tried that, Lew. I used it as a quickie a couple of times while I > was trying to get a port forwarding issue cleared up because Qwest would assign > a new IP to the modem every time I rebooted which screwed up the test link. > I'm too cheap to go the dyndns route so keeping everyone in the loop becomes an > issue when the modems play musical chairs ;-) > LOL! -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com visit my IT blog www.2rosenthals.net/wordpress -------------------------------------------------------------