On Sat, August 29, 2015 12:53 am, Riley Baird wrote: > On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 23:56:17 -0500 > rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: >> Do I need to take special precautions such as configuring the iptable >> firewall on my laptop? Is the laptop likely to "pick up" anything >> (virus, trojan, or whatever) which could compromise the machines in my >> own network? > > Probably not, if you have no network services running on your laptop.
On https://wiki.debian.org/Network I find the following list of network services: Printing, Data Base, DHCP, DNS, FTP, LDAP, Mail, Monitoring, NTP, PPP, Remote Display, File sharing, Disk Sharing, SSH, SVN, Web Server, IM, IPSec VPN, Azureus as a daemon I do not recall all the details of the installation, but I did install SSH, printing, and approx. I may have installed NTP and a web server. I did not install mail. The laptop uses DHCP to get an ip address from the router, but DHCP as a network service must have to do with a machine used as a router, correct? Installing again would take only a few hours, most of the time being spent on configuration of the XFCE desktop. RLH
