At 13:08 6-3-02 -0600, Steve Sloan wrote:

> > My home network is behind a cable modem router(*) so I can
> > access the Internet from various computers in the house. Is
> > it possible to limit access from outside to just the webserver?
> > I would not want outsiders to nose around on the other
> > computers in the network.
>
>I suspect they already *can* nose around your computer through
>your cable modem, even before you set up a web server, but I
>could be wrong.

Fortunately, Zone Alarm does a wonderful job of keeping those people out. 
The log file shows that a firewall is an absolute must-have when you have a 
cable modem; people *do* try to get in, pretty much every day.


Jeroen

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