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ATT BroadBand Port Blocking



On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 11:59:30 -0500
"Wizard" <wizard at neonedge.com> wrote:

> I recall that with my now-dead Netgear router there was a default
> generic port-blocking rule that had to be removed/edited first before
> you could allow traffic to the ports. Perhaps that is true for Linksys
> as well? It seems to me that there is also some option which you can
> enable to put the router into stealth mode, whereby it doesn't respond
> to any externally generated request at all (I'm not sure of this,
> however). Just a thought,
By default, the linksys router has all ports disabled. You must set
which host you want to forward the ports to. You can specify a DMZ host
(no ports blocked), or assign specific ports to specific hosts. 

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