James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
GRC ShieldsUpRalph Shumaker wrote:
James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
..It does look
like the checkboxes you show are allowing external access via HTTP,
SNMP, TELNET, and TFTP protocols to your LAN (yikes on TELNET and TFTP).
==> I would recommend immediately turning all of them off (except the
icmp, which you indicated cannot be changed, anyway).
Whoops! Doing this broke my connection and ability to reconnect to the
DSL modem configuration. It says "The connection to the server was
reset while the page was loading." and "Try Again" just refreshes the
message.
I think most of these modems, and residential gateways reboot when you
do _anything_ that requires a "save". they usually take 30 to 60 secs
to come alive again.
If you cannot ever reconnect to 192.168.1.1, then I am dumfounded! (and
apologetic). There is probably a hardware reset feature, but I wouldn't
do that because it might mess up the preset dsl params (the strange bits
in the advanced configuration pages).
I'm still permitted to surf the web tho. So it didn't _completely_
cripple me.
I would feel better if you can reconnect to the administrative interface
-- maybe you have to close and reopen your browser if you haven't done
that since the reset.
Well, not even rebooting (to clean up the memory) fixed it. (Altho I
had to use bash history to remember how to invoke 192.168.1.99 on eth0.)
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