[ale] AT&T dsl and Linux

Calvin Harrigan charriglists at bellsouth.net
Tue Dec 11 10:59:47 EST 2007


Jim Seymour wrote:
> Hope all are doing well. I am changing my dsl provider to AT&T to take
> advantage of the savings by bundling services. I know many ALE members
> have a strong dislike for them. I have called AT&T about their fastest
> service and was told they do not block any ports and do not have any
> problem with me running a personal website on my home server. I stayed
> away from any Linux questions as I felt that would be wasted time. So,
> here are the Linux questions:
> 
> 1) Is anybody out there using their Fastaccess DSL Xtreme 6.0 service
> with Linux?
> 
> 2) Any particular gotchas? I am currently using Speedfactory for DSL and
> run Debian testing as the web/mail server.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 

I use AT&T without problem, but they do block port 25, but there are 
ways around that.
The westell modem that I have doesn't care what OS you use, just make 
sure you computer setup for dhcp or on the same network subnet as the 
modem with a address other than the modems internal address.



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