--- J-L Boers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:54:32 -0800 (PST) > From: J-L Boers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ShareTheNet] shields up! > To: Patrick Belliotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Bob, > This does not seem to be such a great idea to me. (the automatic > part). Also your client needs to do nothing anyhow as far as ports > opening goes. It does not need to. Only inbound traffic is a > concerned with which ports are open. > Why not just do what I do and use the web administration to open > ports necessary to playing games that you host and then closing > them > when you are done. having something automatically open ports at > will, > kind of goes against the grain as far as security is concerned for > me. > > I do however like your twin boot disk idea. > > I would like to suggest a spin off from your idea that may be a > little more secure. How about something like a "boot menu"? > Something that would allow you to store... say 3 different STN > configurations and allow you to select which one you want to use. > You > would then restart STN with this configuration (using the web admin > or a 1. 2. 3. selection at boot). > J-L > > > >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 > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >ShareTheNet maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >http://www.webserv.com/mailman/listinfo/sharethenet > > > > > > > > Patrick Belliotti > > PGP Key available at pgpkeys.mit.edu > > PGP fingerprint: 705C B779 76B7 566F 78FC 6CC2 09F0 5EE6 C42D > F0B7 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ShareTheNet maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.webserv.com/mailman/listinfo/sharethenet > > > > > > > > > ===== > TTYL > J-L > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com > ===== TTYL J-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ ShareTheNet maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.webserv.com/mailman/listinfo/sharethenet
