-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have FIOS at home, and I have complete access to the router, can configure the firewall, NAT, etc. If you contact Verizon tech support, they're pretty helpful.
Rob Charles Cranston wrote: | I've had two friends move in with me this weekend (long story, they lost | their lease suddenly and unexpectedly) into a 4 bedroom single-family | house in Burtonsville. They had Verizon networking and were adamant | about bringing it with them, and I was none too happy with Comcast | networking and video (lots of problems, another story), so I was not | that unhappy when we snipped the Comcast wires and brought in FIOS. | | There is an ONT (Optical Network Terminal) which is connected to a | branched coaxial cable that feeds the three set-top video boxes and one | modem-router-switch-wireless-access-point unit. The router will service | DHCP to all my wireless machines and the two "server" (desktop) machines | I have plugged into their switch. | | However, under Comcast I had access to the router (I owned the modem and | a Linksys BEF4W11 something like that). I had it serve DHCP addresses | starting at 64 (192.168.1.64 and up) and reserved lower addresses for my | server machines, I had the Macintosh on 192.168.1.2 and the Linux | machine on 192.168.1.3 and everything was well. | | I don't have access to the FIOS configuration setup. My friends are not | technical people, so they don't know what I'm talking about, and the | service is not in my name, so it's not clear how I ask Verizon about | changing this situation. Does anybody have any experience with Verizon | FIOS networks with hardware like this? Is i reasonable for me to ask | for access to the router setup? I'd like to reserve a small number of | fixed IP addresses at the bottom, and open at least one port from the | outside world (I had 3 before, one for X, one for FTP, and one for a | Macintosh remote-management-access protocol, | and I'd like to at least have that third one reinstated)? - -- ******************************************************************************* Robert Maxwell, CISSP, GCFA Lead Incident Handler OIT Security, University of Maryland rmaxwell at umd dot edu GnuPG Public Key: http://security.umd.edu/contact/Robert_Maxwell.asc ******************************************************************************* -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH/sLno4D6RWMNbXsRAs++AJ9aSM3FRlONTS9XBv4NlW4yKVBhKwCfTHSE FLHRtRg2s/884hiTLyzZvz0= =IBod -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
