--- "V�ctor A. Ramos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- Ralf D�blitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: > --On Dienstag, Dezember 07, 2004 02:07:58 +0100 "V�ctor A. Ramos" > mldonkey is a server, so if you run that program you *have* a service
bound > to the external interface - which contradicts the precondition above.
> > As long as you do not run any server processes you don't need a packet
> filter.
> > Ralf
There are many programs which open ports by default in a Debian installation (an nmap localhost
you mean "nmap $MYIP", since ports opend to localhost(mysql, webmin, ext) are not listening on your other interfaces.
could be very revealing), and I want to control the traffic of my PC, that's all... with servers, without servers... put a firewall on a system which is connected to the net, is a good security method.
Please, stop worrying about it... and thank you all, really ;)
Regards
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