Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:50:13 +0300 (EEST) From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Internet firewall Message-ID: <20050823124810.R6031@orion> In-Reply-To: <b7052e1e05082222474a4c659b@mail.gmail.com> References: <43064B2F.7050605@orcon.net.nz> <20050819214637.GA10088@flame.pc> <b7052e1e05082222474a4c659b@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2005-08-23 09:47, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: > On 8/20/05, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: >> [Writing about the need for a firewall.] >> It takes about 4-5 seconds when I connect with my dialup account >> from home and then incoming connections start coming from spyware, >> trojans and misc. other scanners :-) > > But it is possible to set up ppp to reject all incoming requests > (with nat deny_incoming set to yes IIRC). After that, the machine > will be "invisible" to the outside world, even if no firewalls > are configured on it. At least Shields Up! service located at > https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 will tell you so. That's cool! I haven't used it, but it sounds very useful at least as a preliminary aid until a _real_ packet filter is available :-)
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