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On Monday 24 January 2005 11:00 am, David Bell wrote:
On Monday 24 January 2005 10:15, Neil Williams wrote:Connect to the internet via Fedora - use an external modem (dial-up) or a router (broadband).Neil, Can you recommend a DSL router for home use which doesn't leave various ports wide open?
?? All the routers I've ever seen come with a built-in firewall that closes every port to access from the internet. It's a basic feature of all routers.?? They also leave all internal ports open - so that services between computers on the home network are not disrupted. There'll usually be a DNS config and DHCP server also built-in and usually pre-configured. Internal 192.168.0. -> router -> 82.217.89. etc. all ports open all ports closed Routers always have two addresses - the internal and the external. You can ping both. Typically there is a Javascript or HTML admin interface available on 192.168.0.1 or whatever is the default IP of the router. You adjust everything there - but the firewall to close all ports on the external IP has always been on by default on every router I've ever seen. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.dcglug.org.uk/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.williamsleesmill.me.uk/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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