kyle wrote: > > Hello all, > I have recently installed dsl at home. The dsl company > is very restrictive about stuff and they wont give me > the password to the dsl modem for administration... I > have an ip masq server connected to the modem (pppoe) > running to get all my computer on the internet. Now my > question is how can i or can i run any type of server > on my home network? I do not understand how i would > set it up to say run a web server that people could > reach from the internet. But then if nothing gets thru > how is it that stuff like bearshare and icq works? > Thank you an advance for helping me understand what i > hope is a basic concept :) > -Kyle > Who is your ISP? At least with me, I pay uswest for the bandwidth but use fastq.com as the ISP and they have no restrictions. You do have to pay more for a static IP though. They also use routing mode rather than ppp mode. eric r.