Re: net protection - firewalls

2004-08-10 Thread John Summerfield
Matt Johnson wrote: Now, despite your firewall, there's traffic that comes right through it _at your invitation,_ no less! Consider www requests such as that 26 Mbyte SP2 for XP. Email. Those can do bad things too, and that's where content filters such as spamassassin (email), MimeDefang (email

Re: net protection - firewalls

2004-08-10 Thread Matt Johnson
--- John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hosts on the internet can only connect to other > hosts that they can see. > In you case, they can see your gateway, but not the > rest of the LAN. > > Mostly, hosts on the internet can only connect to > ports that are open. > > I say "mostly,"

Re: net protection - firewalls

2004-08-10 Thread John Summerfield
Matt Johnson wrote: Hi all, Two comments in recent threads have prompted me to ask this... Firstly, someone mentioned that ipmasq isn't a firewall, but is a good starting point. And secondly, there's been talk of people receiving attempts to crack their machines, which I guess must be happening to

net protection - firewalls

2004-08-10 Thread Matt Johnson
Hi all, Two comments in recent threads have prompted me to ask this... Firstly, someone mentioned that ipmasq isn't a firewall, but is a good starting point. And secondly, there's been talk of people receiving attempts to crack their machines, which I guess must be happening to me too. Ok. I in