On Friday 13 December 2002 01:17 am, fooler wrote:
> > > 2. but to block the ports i want to block, set port forwarding so
> > > that requests to those ports are sent to a non-existent internal
> > > IP (192.168.1.99).
>
> instead using 192.168.1.99, just port forward at your router's localhost
> and select the ip from range 127.0.0.1 to 127.255.255.254...
ahhh, you're right. the other works, but this is better so that just in case
a box ever gets .1.99 via DHCP then there's still no hole.
thanks.
tiger
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