On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 14:33:29 -0400, JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yep, very easy to administer. Not as 'l33t' as going in through SSH and editing > iptables by hand, but who has time for that, right? > > One thing I never did understand about those Linksys doohickeys tho, why you > cannot specify one port to be forwarded to an internal server, ie. port 80 to > your webserver. You gotta put a *range* of ports, which strikes me as odd, but > that could be because I'm an id10t.
It's just for flexibility. Using ranges, it easily supports both single port openings and range port openings (when you think about it, they're actually the same -- the former is just a range over one port). So, to open up port 80 only, you would open the range of ports from 80 to 80. Many other applications, though, user a block of ten or so ports. If only single port openings were supported, you would have to open a port 10 times. -- Matt Warden Berry Neuroscience Lab Department of Psychology Miami University This email proudly and graciously contributes to entropy.
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