Hi Tom,
First I would check to make sure that the firewall was indeed operating
checking to see if I could get traffic up and downstream. So I would
just do a ping. That's what tipped me off in the first place that
something wasn't right. I couldn't get any traffic going either
direction.
Then, I would go to this site --> https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 and
use it to check my ports. I'm fairly sure that just about everyone on
this list has heard of Steve Gibson and his site. Also, about his
crusade for personal PC security. This guy is about as serious as I've
seen when it comes to securing a PC from the outside. It borders some
well-known psyciatric maledies...at any rate the guy really knows his
stuff so who am I to form an opinion.
When the firewall is up and running correctly the port probe comes up
with every port showing up as running in "stealth" mode. For all intents
and purposes there isn't even a detectable computer at the address that
is showing up to be the I have at the moment. I have a dynamic IP
address. Steve is a wiz of a programmer and has been able to think up a
lot of different ways that a hacker might use to gain access to one's
PC. He says that he is currently able to probe anyone's ports all the
way up to and including port # 65000.
At any rate I was using his web site to check and see if the ports were
either closed, open, or hidden from internet view.
Mark
Tom Brinkman wrote:
>
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > Hi again Greg,
> >
> > I added the line to start the firewall in the ip-up file and it's starting
> > fine now. I don't know why it wouldn't start with the line in
> > ip-up.local. the only thing I could come up with was that it wasn't
> > getting read by the shell script. maybe it wasn't being referenced
> > correctly...don't know for sure.
> >
> > thanks again for the help.
> >
> > --
> > Mark
>
> Heck I didn't even think of all this before, but in reading
> this thread I tried as 'ps ax' while connected and pmfirewall
> didn't show up.
> So I added the
> '/usr/local/pmfirewall/pmfirewall start' to ip-up (same as you
> there was already a sinilar statement in ip-up.local) and
> reconnected, ran 'ps ax' and it still doesn't show.
>
> What are you using to determine if pmfirewall's runnin Mark?
> --
> ~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Mark
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