Qwest.net and 2wire gateway

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 07:47 -0700, Nathan Aubrey wrote:
> A little more information. My server has a public ip which shows ssh being 
> filtered, because it is forwarded to another machine. If I disable the 
> forward it shows it is open. However, my gateway has port 22 closed.
> If the gateway is blocking the port, though the server is open, it won't be 
> able to communicate back to me, correct? Could that be the problem? I don't 
> have the option of turning off the firewall on this stupid 2wire box. I'm 
> really tired of corporations "protecting" us.
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and by the way...

Even if you turn off remote admin, Qwest can still remotely administrate
your 2-wire box. I found that extremely disconcerting.

As for corporations protecting us...they are merely interested in
protecting themselves. As far as I could tell, there is not a normal
'bridging' mode on the 2-wire stuff, and that ultimately, it is not
suitable for fixed IP address, multiple public IP addresses or normal
business usage.

You have no options for forwarding or exposing services to the public on
the 2-wire system other than the two methods prescribed in their
software. The first is to only use their dhcp system, set up your
internal server to be a dhcp client (which goes against everything I
believe) and then you can reassign that system with a public IP address
OR pick individual ports for forwarding (which has its own limitations).

Craig