For your CLIENT to use the TCP stuff (http, ftp), you don't need "open" ports at the
firewall. These are for when you have a SERVER on the inside of your STN box that you
want others on the outside to get to as clients.
For clients on the outside to get to your servers (ftp ,http, etc.), the holes must be
there.
At 11:26 AM 11/10/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I've been using share-the-net for a while now.. Its great... security
>is well better than most. Here's what I would like though...
>
>I have a 24/7 connection to the internet but I prob use my machine
>33% of that time. In order to have all my "toys" going I needed to
>open several ports, both tcp/upd. My list of installed programs on
>a win98 machine: ICQ, Age of empires, Quake, RealAudio, Quicktime...
>ftp server, http etc.. In a nutshell I have lots of ports open...
>What I would like as a feature would be to disable all those extra ports
>until the client (my win98 box) goes to use one of them... Then the
>router dynamically opens those ports... When those services aren't in use
>I would like to be able to disable those ports...
>Right now I have two boot disks.. one with all the ports open.. the other with
>nothing. I there a way that this could be implemented into a version of
>sharethenet?
>
>Thanks
>
>Bob
>
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