[ale] Linksys router stopping ftp:// sites

[ale at pcartwright.com (Paul Cartwright)]

On Wed January 7 2009, James Sumners wrote:
> Are you running the stock Linksys firmware? If yes, then there isn't
> much you can do about it. It sounds like a problem with FTP and
> connection tracking in the firewall. See [1] for more information. If
> you are using a third party firmware (I use Tomato with no problems),
> try upgrading to a newer version. Or if you just recently upgraded,
> revert back to the previous version; there could be a bug in the new
> version.
>
well, my issue was more cockpit error.. seems I had made a small adjustment in 
the linksys.. what i thought was to ENABLE some ports, 21-23, was actually a 
rule to disable them...
so now ftp works, but my original problem exists, which is me NOT being able 
to use putty or winscp from my laptop to my Debian desktop.
 with the linksys my network changed from 192.168.10.1 to 192.168.2.100 .

> [1] --
> http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial.html#COMPLEXPROTOC
>OLS
lots of heavy reading here:)

back to the linksys, why did you switch from the stock firmware to tomato and 
what did you gain??



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