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 2202280 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:54:28 -0500 Message-ID: <4B732B13.1040304@2rosenthals.com> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:54:27 -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 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. -- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------