[CLUE-Tech] Of Security and Firewalls..

[Cyberclops]

WOuld this help a person like myself running a single work station on a
cable modem?

By the way I have all the ports that Shields Up scans closed.  It sees
them, but notes they are closed.  It would be nicer to be invisable.


rfrank wrote:

> I logged in as root and compared my scripts with what ClarkConnect
> did for the same topology.  My rc.firewall contained far fewer ipchains
> entries but other than that, I was pretty close.  Then the fun began.
> I did a shields-up scan of my site (www.linuxclssroom.org) and
> the report was that the machine was cloaked: it had not only blocked
> the ports, it appeared as if it had dropped of the net.  I checked the
> logs and sure enough, there it was as blocked.  Sweet.
> 
> Bottom line: learn all you can from net docs and helpful clue-techies
> and try ClarkConnect to learn more and to stay safely on-line.
> 
> Roger Frank
> 
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