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Hughes Engineers have released the Homeland Security Threat Advisory Gadget.

When the Department Of Homeland Security issues a new threat level, the change will be reflected in the National Threat Advisory Gadget. This Gadget is FREE to use on any website or blog:

Please visit the National Threat Advisory Gadget Page for the html code.

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Setting Up the AT&T U-verse RG (Residential Gateway) 3800HGV-B (2WIRE) with Static IP Addresses. Login to the RG using any web browser at 192.168.1.254

If AT&T Supplied you with a block of Static IP Addresses, then you want to navigate to Settings>Broadband>Link Configuration

You must be logged in using a password, the default password is located on the bottom of the RG unit. 

In our case we were assigned by AT&T a block of 64 Static IP Addresses. Our Engineers set the Upstream MTU to 1492

Set your Gateway Static IP Address (AT&T Provided) and the Net-mask AT&T provided. Do Not Enable the Auto Firewall Open!

Before you click the save button, make sure your servers and client machines have all been set with a static IP address from the block that AT&T provided and are connected via a Ethernet switch or hub to one of the LAN ports on the back of the U-verse RG unit.

Here is the secret to getting the RG unit to detect each machine (Computer/Server) with a Static IP.  Our Engineers found that the RG unit would take hours or days to detect the different machines.

Simply click the save button on the Link Configuration page and navigate to Diagnostics>IP Utilities

Simply select Trace-route, enter the Static IP Address for the machine/computer you want the RG unit to detect. Next click the start button, once the reverse look-up displays, click the stop button. You must repeat this for all Static IP Addresses that you assigned.

We know this is a pain, but still better than waiting hours or days for the RG to detect your machines/computers on your LAN.

Now that you have detected all your Computers, servers etc., we will show you how to let the Internet community see your web servers etc.

We have Linux servers on our LAN and we set the MTU on all servers to 1480, just seems to work better with the RG unit.

Firewall settings for our system, you may select something different (use at your own risk).We found that the following settings on the RG unit worked best for our Internet servers:

Navigate to Firewall>Advance Configuration

Uncheck Stealth Mode, Uncheck Block Ping and Uncheck Strict UDP Session Control

Next we unchecked the following:

Excessive Session Detection

TCP/UDP Port Scan

Invalid Source/Destination IP address

Packet Flood (SYN/UDP/ICMP/Other)

Invalid TCP Flag Attacks (NULL/XMAS/Other)

Invalid ICMP Detection

Miscellaneous

Next click the save button. (Again use at your own risk)

Last and final phase, navigate to LAN>IP Address Allocation

scroll down the page, you will now see all your Machines/Computers listed, to give each machine full access to the Internet, you will need to do the following:

Device: unknown0010E00233EC

Current Address	99.31.171.155
Device Status	Connected Static IP
Firewall	Enabled Disabled
Address Assignment	Static IP - no DHCP
WAN IP Mapping	Public Fixed: 99.31.171.155 Public from pool:99.31.171.128 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.129 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.130 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.131 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.132 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.133 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.134 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.135 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.136 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.137 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.138 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.139 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.140 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.141 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.142 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.143 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.144 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.145 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.146 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.147 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.148 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.149 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.150 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.151 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.152 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.153 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.154 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.155 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.156 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.157 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.158 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.159 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.160 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.161 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.162 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.163 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.164 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.165 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.166 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.167 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.168 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.169 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.170 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.171 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.172 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.173 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.174 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.175 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.176 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.177 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.178 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.179 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.180 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.181 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.182 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.183 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.184 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.185 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.186 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.187 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.188 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.189

You need to disable the firewall so that your  severs will work like a normal ISP:

Device: unknown0010E00233EC

Current Address	99.31.171.155
Device Status	Connected Static IP
Firewall	Disabled Enabled
Address Assignment	Static IP - no DHCP
WAN IP Mapping	Public Fixed: 99.31.171.155 Public from pool:99.31.171.128 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.129 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.130 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.131 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.132 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.133 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.134 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.135 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.136 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.137 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.138 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.139 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.140 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.141 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.142 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.143 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.144 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.145 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.146 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.147 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.148 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.149 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.150 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.151 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.152 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.153 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.154 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.155 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.156 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.157 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.158 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.159 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.160 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.161 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.162 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.163 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.164 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.165 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.166 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.167 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.168 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.169 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.170 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.171 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.172 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.173 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.174 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.175 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.176 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.177 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.178 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.179 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.180 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.181 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.182 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.183 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.184 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.185 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.186 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.187 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.188 Public Fixed: 99.31.171.189

Now click the save button, repeat these steps with all machines….

That’s it, your servers/computers now have full Internet access, make sure you have DNS entries for all machines.

Disclaimer:

HughesTech Labs (Hughes Technologies, Inc.) accepts no liability for the content of this blog, or for the consequences of any actions taken on the basis of the information provided within said blog. The information provided was results from our internal testing and found to work best for our current configuration.

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Our Engineers have released yet another Free Weather Tool called the Wind Chill Calculator. The Wind Chill Calculator allows visitors to websites and blogs that have the gadget installed, to calculate windchill in real-time, by simply entering their current  temperature and wind speed.

Below is the actual wind chill gadget:

Anyone can add the above gadget to any website or blog for free. Find the html code needed for the Wind Chill Calculator here.

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