On the Alcatel Speed Touch Pro ADSL modem, a protection mechanism feature is available to ensure that nobody can gain remote access to the modem (via the WAN/DSL interface). This mechanism guarantees that nobody from outside your network can access the modem and change its settings. The protection is currently not activated on your system.

Telnet to this modem and adjust the security settings as follows: => ip config firewalling on => config save More information : http://www.alcatel.com/consumer/dsl/security.htm