swank;213478 Wrote: > AHHHH... > I assumed it was all port forwarding, but I guess port forwarding is a > router thing and not a firewall thing? > > And so it sounds like what I did was open a port (two ports, actually) > on my firewall for my internal network/traffic...which is obviously > different from setting port forwarding on my router. Am I on the right > track?
Yup, that's pretty much my understanding. swank;213478 Wrote: > It's all academic at this point cuz things are working, but good to > understand these things... Yes, save that if you have actually opened up some ports on your router to the world at large by port forwarding, you may want to close 'em down sharpish. An open port on your IP can be detected with a port scan (depending on any security software you have in place) and might be used to compromise your system. -- Siduhe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36594 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
