network and firewall questions

2004-01-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I'm still very much a newbie regarding networking issues and firewalls; so if I need to be slapped, please be gentle. ;-) Most of my home computers are behind a NAT router with very simple firewalls -- let all requests out, allow established in, deny everything else. I put a test computer in

Re: network and firewall questions

2004-01-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone access your computer by a port if nothing is listening to that > port? Hopefully not. > If not, then if you turn off services that you don't use and need to access > used services remotely (i.e. let them through a firewall), do you ne