** Reply to message from "Lewis G Rosenthal"
<os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> 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" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> 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 ;-)