[ale] BellSouth DSL setup

[Marvin the Martian]

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.) 
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>>

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.