lemmy999 wrote:
Peter;163189 Wrote:
Configure IP filters on your router and only allow certain IP addresses
in. That's perfectly secure and fairly easy to set up, provided your
'clients' have static ip's.
I have had 3 different routers (Linksys, Netgear and now a US Robotics)
and I don't believe any of them have had the ability to do IP filtering.
Is this only on high end routers or do I just have the few routers that
do not have this ability?
Hi Lemmy,
All the home routers I've owned had this ability, but that may well be
because I chose them for their feature richness. In fact I've only had
Drayteks so they may well be a-typical. I do consider this sort of
functionality pretty basic for any router that claims 'firewall'
functionality (and don't they all?).
Anyway, I believe the recent versions of slimserver have IP access
restrictions built in, so you could just use those. Since IP
restrictions come before any command processing they're usually pretty
secure.
And then there's the built in firewalls in XP & other OS-es. I assume
it's possible to whitelist certain IP's for slimserver access in the
Windows firewall. That should be pretty safe too. In fact my slimserver
runs on Linux and I restrict access with iptables when necessary (my
preference is to use openvpn) so I may well have unrealistic
expectations of other systems ( o well, perhaps Vista... )
Regards,
Peter
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