[olug] Cox blocking inbound TCP 2401?

[Jay Woods]

Have you tried hooking a machine directly to the cable modem and bypassing the 
slinksys?

On Wednesday 24 March 2004 08:53 am, Terry wrote:
> --- Jay Hannah <jay at jays.net> wrote:
> > On Mar 19, 2004, at 9:30 AM, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> > > Dude, VPN!  It's SOOO easy to get around Cox's
> >
> > filtering when all they
> >
> > > see is IP proto 50...
> >
> > VPN for server-server connectivity? The only VPN
> > I've played with is
> > Cisco clients from WinX and Mac.
> >
> > What's the VPNy way to VPN back into my server at
> > home when I don't
> > have root on the remote (Linux) machines? I want to
> > throw stuff in cron
> > on the remote boxes too. Wouldn't I need root to set
> > up permanent VPN
> > tunnels / static routes from the remote clients?
> >
> > What VPN software are we talking about?
> >
> > I called Cox. They say their not blocking inbound to
> > my IP. Yet, I move
> > services around to random ports and can still never
> > get in. Perhaps I'm
> > doing something stupid in my Linksys?