On 8/20/05, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-08-20 09:12, Gareth Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > I'm a newbie and have got my box all set up with FreeBSD 5.4, fluxbox > > wm, firefox, thunderbird etc... It's all looking awesome, with > > transparency, and working well. I run it on dial-up ppp but haven't set > > up any firewall. Should I be setting one up? > > Yes, definitely. > > It takes about 4-5 seconds when I connect with my dialup account from > home and then incoming connections start coming from spyware, trojans > and misc. other scanners :-) ...
But it is possible to set up ppp to reject all incoming requests (with nat deny_incoming set to yes IIRC). After that, the machine will be "invisible" to the outside world, even if no firewalls are configured on it. At least Shields Up! service located at https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 will tell you so. -- Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia I ignore all messages with confidentiality statements "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
