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Re: pcflank.com was [LUG] Transplanting hard drives

 

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:39:21 +0000
David Bell wrote:

81.x.170.x

You really shouldn't put your Internet-visible IP address on a list quite so 
blatantly.  Not everyone that has access to this mailing list (bearing in mind that 
it is archived and publicly visible) will have scruples.

Many routers will have firewalling facilities but not configure them by default.  
Others will lock things down completely by default.  Cisco is a good case for 
both... if you don't enable "access control lists" manually, then you have no 
firewall.  Once enabled, if you don't configure it manually then it's completely 
locked down.

If you have a "personal" firewall running, and yours is the only machine that 
connects to the Internet through this router, then it shouldn't actually matter if 
the router's firewall is off.

Grant.
-- 
Artificial intelligence is no match for nuratal stidutipy.

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