nwrickert
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join:2004-09-04
Geneva, IL
 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·AT&T Midwest
| reply to acuariano
Re: about firewall? windows firewall and router firewall
said by acuariano  :so you choose this one: "No Security (None) All traffic is allowed. " Yes.
and what about windows firewall,you just tick "on-recomended" ..what about the "don't allow exceptions box" I just take the defaults.
--DIS you run a firewall test at "shields up" site?
I show fine at that site. I show port 25 and port 22 open. That's because I am port-forwarding them to my linux box. And the port for remote modem management is open, but doesn't do anything since I have remote management turned off (the default, as I recall).
The way a NAT router works, when an outbound connection is made the router adds an entry to its NAT table so that reply packets can be sent to the correct machine on your LAN. If a packet is received for which there is no entry in the NAT table, the packet is dropped. So connections initiated from outside are impossible unless you do port forwarding (hardwire entries in the NAT table).
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AT&T dsl; Speedstream 5100b modem; openSuSE 11.0; firefox 3.0.11 |
