complicated router question....

[Eric Richardson]

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.