Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Apparently you didn't RTFM. (Of course, since you didn't read my > comment either. I said: "Click on BLOCK SERVICES" and you clicked on > "Schedule", well no shit Sherlock, of course what I told you won't be > there.) Here: I found it for you: > > ftp://downloads.netgear.com/files/fvs318_ref_manual_14.pdf > > Chapter 4, page 5. > > Poorly written, but understandable. Of course, that is for firmware > version 1.4, which has been out since January 2004, hopefully I am not > making an undue assumption that your router has the most up-to-date > firmware. > > Hope THAT helps </sarcasm>
You have a fast smart mouth on you Mr. Wong. But thanks just the same. I got in my head you both were talking about the scheduling area. My mistake. I noticed it soon after posting and found the place to make these settings shortly thereafter. There is a problem with it I'll explain in a minute but first let me ask if you are actually using your router to do something similar to what I described? Reason I ask is here it appears it would be a very shaky way to go. In the blocking area there is a list of 11 services to block. Services can be added in a differernt area but even then one is just guessing and hoping any attacker doesn't use a port for which there is no service or one you forgot to add. It appears there is no global setting to just block everything. I thought of doing something similar with the keywords blocking by selecting com, org, net, edu etc as the keywords, but again one is just hoping you didn't overlook something. Again, no way to just say `block all incoming/outgoing'. If you've been doing this overtime it would be encouraging to hear it has worked with no problems Getting back to using the gentoo box for this: One poster mentioned, he thought it would require hard wiring the win boxes to run thru the gentoo first. I'm wondering if it would work to just set the gentoo box as gateway for them even though they are coming in thru the router first. Haven't tried any of that since I need an undisturrbed internet connection for a while more yet. -- [email protected] mailing list
