At 7:16 PM -0500 7/28/02, Jim Black wrote: >At this point, only safe bet is to setup a firewall. Then again, only a >matter of time before the ISP's start probing ports on these as well.
One other thing worth mentioning. It's a pain but maybe you could add a network card to the PC or Mac and share the connection with that box as a gateway/router. With the satellite internet service I have there is no choice but to set up my home LAN via a PC--those little router/switches won't work. Using ICS on a Win2k or XP box is fairly straightforward. OS 9.x and earlier has no native sharing (a real shortcoming) so something like IP NetRouter has to be used. Set up ICS on the gateway and set high security on Zone Alarm and test it out on at one of several websites (pcpitstop.com as an example) to see if your firewall allows any open ports. If there's a port scan, ZAP will deny access. -- Pax, Pastor Mac Made on a Macintosh, of course. -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
