ATT BroadBand Port Blocking

Ali Taalebi taalebi at ai.mit.edu
Fri Feb 7 18:59:09 EST 2003


This week I got ATT Broadband connection at home.
I have no problem accessing the Internet, ssh, ... from home.
However, I cannot access any of the services (HTTP, SSH, ...) on 
my Linux Box from outside.
(I CAN ping the WAN port of router if I disable "Blocking WAN Requests".) 

IS ATT Broadband blocking such ports or I am missing something else?
Your insights will be very much appreciated.

Here are my home network setup:
	ATT Broadband connection
	RCN cable modem
	LinkSys Router (Model BEFSR41)
	RedHat Linux 7.2 (on Compaq Deskpro)

Thanks.
Al.




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