[ale] Westell DSL Router

[Jim Popovitch]

I no longer have mine hooked up, but when I was playing with it I had to
disable passthru and then create a service for the non-standard port
that i wanted to open up.  It wasn't all that intuitive, but it did
work.

-Jim P.

On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 10:32 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> I have the Westell DSL Router as provided by Bellsouth.
> 
> It acts as as simple NAT/firewall.
> 
> Has anyone successfully configured the Westell to pass inbound sockets
> into a server?
> 
> Specifically, I want to open up SSH and HTTP traffic for a couple days
> to do some testing.
> 
> On the HTTP GUI of the Westell there are 2 config options which seem
> relevant: "IP Passthru" and "NAT".
> 
> I've read the manual, but it does not really say what these 2 options do.
> 
> I tried setting the IP Passthru to my server, but it does not seem to
> be working.
> 
> Under the NAT config screen there are lots of web services to choose,
> but when I try to add a service, it rejects the request because IP
> Passthru is enabled.
> 
> Thanks
> Greg