[ale] BellSouth DSL setup
Marvin the Martian
marvin.higginbottom at gmail.com
Sat Sep 17 03:27:30 EDT 2005
Geoffrey wrote:
>>Another ALEr late last spring or early this summer, kindly provided a link
>>to the manufacturer's configuration manual for BS' most commonly supplied
>>modem. Fairly straight-forward browser-based configuration, IIRC. (It has a
>>decent set of router and firewall functions, but my paranoid heart suspects
>>BS can possibly reconfigure it from upstream.)
>>
>>
I get that feeling too. The router configuration gives you an option to
turn on remote admin for a limited number of hours, after which it's
supposed to close back up- but nmap always shows that particular port
open *whenever* it's run. It surely smells like a big fat back-door to me.
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