Hi all,
Two comments in recent threads have prompted me to ask
this...
Firstly, someone mentioned that ipmasq isn't a
firewall, but is a good starting point.
And secondly, there's been talk of people receiving
attempts to crack their machines, which I guess must
be happening to me too.
Ok. I
Matt Johnson wrote:
Hi all,
Two comments in recent threads have prompted me to ask
this...
Firstly, someone mentioned that ipmasq isn't a
firewall, but is a good starting point.
And secondly, there's been talk of people receiving
attempts to crack their machines, which I guess must
be happening to
--- John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hosts on the internet can only connect to other
hosts that they can see.
In you case, they can see your gateway, but not the
rest of the LAN.
Mostly, hosts on the internet can only connect to
ports that are open.
I say mostly, because
Matt Johnson wrote:
Now, despite your firewall, there's traffic that
comes right through it
_at your invitation,_ no less! Consider www requests
such as that 26
Mbyte SP2 for XP. Email.
Those can do bad things too, and that's where
content filters such as
spamassassin (email), MimeDefang
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