Re: [LUG] Transplanting hard drives

[Andrew Rogers <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Bell wrote:

> On Monday 24 January 2005 12:35, Neil Williams wrote:
>
>  
>
> > ?? All the routers I've ever seen come with a built-in firewall that closes
> > every port to access from the internet. It's a basic feature of all
> > routers.??
> >    
>
> My Creative router modem (8133u-c1) has no firewall, as a result I get perfect 
> apt downloads, but http://www.pcflank.com tell me that ports are visible on 
> it (port 80, plus several 4 figure ports) so I hesitate to use it despite 
> having Guarddog installed.  This is with just an etho connection from my 
> laptop without any other network.
>  

Not a network expert myself so I'm really guessing but could it be 
because it is setup as a bridge instead of a router? I vaguely remember 
something about this in the manual for my ADSL/Router.

Regards
Andrew



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