Hi Mike. You are running stateful NAT, (stateful Network Address Translation on your modem/router,) right? Also, your modem/router should not be responding to ping(1)/icmp/ident packets since you do not allow remote/external access. Might try:
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 for starters to find out, (or better, nmap(1) if you have access to an external shell account.) John Mike McClain writes: > I must admit to being surprised at the quantity of attempts to > hack into my computer. It only took a couple of days before I started > rotating those logs to keep the size down. I'm getting from 20,000 to > over a million hits a day on a computer that's only online 3-4 hours a > day and often much less. > . . . > > I suspect I'm not the only one who is interested in this exploration > and hope some of you can share tips to carry it further. > -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/