On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 09:35:08PM +1200, C. Falconer wrote: > The easy answer is to remove dialup networking from her computer.
sounds like a microso~1 solution alright. i'll try that. > This is because brain-dead MS software can't be told to set the ethernet > card as the primary default route - instead it believes that 192.168.0.0/16 > is out the ethernet, but the default for anything else should be out the > modem. > http://members.home.net/ipmasq/ This URL has a lot of good stuff about > Masqing generally. my ipmasq (via ipfwadm) seems fine. once windon't is up and running, all is well (and my mac has no trouble ever). i'll try the dialup net removal shortly. > Finally - get someone to portscan your IP from outside your network... > that'll tell you what ports you have open. Don't skip this step... it'd > not be smart at all (speaking as someone who did skip it once) we've gone to http://grc.com/ for just that purpose. nice site, especially for microso~1 customers who odon't know their default netbios settings can attract maggots. did you suffer ill consequences from skipping the port scan? (i.e. someone wearing a not-white hat scanned them for you?)
