[ale] DSL woes

[Jim Kinney]

My thinking exactly. netcat is a perfect tool for port testing.

Tell the turd at ATT that you need to speak with a
_network_engineer_manager_ and that the Comcast Business Class line you are
testing seems to work and that you have a Cisco router attached to their
line and the Windows Server 2007 is not being connected to.

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:41 PM, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:

> If you install Cygwin on the windows box and pick netcat (nc)
> during the install process, you can tell netcat to listen on
> any TCP port you want.  I think recent versions can do UDP as
> well.
>
> -- JK
>
>
> On 3/30/2010 10:33 AM, Jim Lynch wrote:
> > I'm having trouble with BS  sorry ATT DSL.  (I know, what's new).  Here
> > a few months back one of my apps developed a hearing problem.  It was
> > hung from a non standard port and for some reason I could not get to
> > that port from the WAN.  I determined the firewall in the router is
> > still set up right.  Kinda strange, the non standard ports that I have
> > opened all of the time still work however the ones I bring up and down
> > don't.  It's like they did a port scan and closed all my unused ports
> > for me.
> >
> > Anyway they won't talk with me about the problem unless I'm running
> > Windows. So I'm going to disconnect everything from the modem except a
> > switch and a Win XP box and run something listening to a blocked port so
> > I can prove to them it isn't working.  I don't have much hope they will
> > do anything about it but I'm going to try.  Can someone suggest an
> > application that listens on a non standard port or something that lets
> > you config the port on Win XP?  Preferably a free one.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jim.
> >
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