My thinking exactly. netcat is a perfect tool for port testing.<br><br>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. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:41 PM, JK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jknapka@kneuro.net">jknapka@kneuro.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If you install Cygwin on the windows box and pick netcat (nc)<br>
during the install process, you can tell netcat to listen on<br>
any TCP port you want. I think recent versions can do UDP as<br>
well.<br>
<br>
-- JK<br>
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On 3/30/2010 10:33 AM, Jim Lynch wrote:<br>
> I'm having trouble with BS sorry ATT DSL. (I know, what's new). Here<br>
> a few months back one of my apps developed a hearing problem. It was<br>
> hung from a non standard port and for some reason I could not get to<br>
> that port from the WAN. I determined the firewall in the router is<br>
> still set up right. Kinda strange, the non standard ports that I have<br>
> opened all of the time still work however the ones I bring up and down<br>
> don't. It's like they did a port scan and closed all my unused ports<br>
> for me.<br>
><br>
> Anyway they won't talk with me about the problem unless I'm running<br>
> Windows. So I'm going to disconnect everything from the modem except a<br>
> switch and a Win XP box and run something listening to a blocked port so<br>
> I can prove to them it isn't working. I don't have much hope they will<br>
> do anything about it but I'm going to try. Can someone suggest an<br>
> application that listens on a non standard port or something that lets<br>
> you config the port on Win XP? Preferably a free one.<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Jim.<br>
><br>
><br>
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