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I'm always a bit wary of pcflank's reports. Try their quick test and then their advanced tests. When I try the quick test it reports that I've open ports but the advanced tests show the self same ports are stealthed. Draw what conclusions you like from that but I suppose the company is in business to try and sell you it's products. You can draw false comfort from www.grc.com "Shields UP" test because gooling around reveals that many people think their tests are also unreliable. Anyone know of a reliable online firewall tester? Keith 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 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.