On 09/01/2006, at 12:15 PM, Paul Day wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Craig Ringer wrote:
A NAT router makes it difficult to initiate a connection to your
systems from the outside world.
But only if you change the default name and password to access the
Router .
The extremely basic firewalls in Mac OS X and Windows XP are intended
to do much the same thing.
I think it should be emphasized that the _default configuration_ in
Mac OS X is basic, not ipfw itself. :) ipfw is a more than acceptable
firewalling package, just not with the default config that it gets
when you click the little Start button in the Firewall tab of Sharing.
Sorry , but I am still learning about this .... what is ipfw ... and
what changes would you recommend ?
Thanks
Bob
PD
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