On Thursday 08 July 2004 06:49 am, Justin Grote wrote: > If you are connected through a router or cable modem, that device could > be advertising those ports, either as port forwarding to a different > device, or ports open on the cable modem/router itself (although these > ports are not normally be open to the outside world for security > reasons). You may want to check your cable modem/router's configuration > to see if it is forwarding any of these ports for you (it shouldn't by > factory default settings). > > Hope that helps, don't hesitate to post again if you need more info :) >
Justin, as an update to this, what I did was go to a friends box and try to telnet to my ip address. Only once did I get a login box, however, it wasn't for my system but a login box for my modem. I was able to log into the modem once, other attempts after that showed connection refused. The same with a ping. Telnet asked for a user id/password, entered the correct one and got a connection refused. I had the firestarter gui up during this and when I got back there were no hits shown on the firewall log and nothing showing in my syslog. Therefore its my conclusion that the three open ports are for modem configuration and not actaully on my box. Right or wrong? -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:11pm up 11 days, 22:31, 2 users, load average: 0.79, 0.79, 0.59 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. -- Redd Foxx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Live - From Virgin Radio UK Virgin Radio Classic Tracks - The original classic rock station
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