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To: Neeka who wrote (313691)11/2/2002 2:33:24 PM
From: Thomas A Watson  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
The benefit of the linksis and I guess other small personal routers is that I believe they have the forwarding of requests for port services turned off by default. The router only passes your requests to the internet and does not pass internet requests back to your computer. the linksys router makes your system safe from direct internet port attacks.

This makes your computer invisible to service requests sent to the IP address you are currently using to access information on the internet.

But mail born viri that exploit msft weaknesses can still reach your computer.

I do not follow all the virus stuff for msft OSes. I am only concerned with attacks to ports that I'm using to provide services to the internet.

I have just recently decided to offer servers on one of my machines. I must now admin the additional security.

I have noticed attacks on the http port and also on ftp port. In that my system is running redhat 7.3, I am currently

My point on the router is that different ISPs have different policies on the routing. You own router allow you to not allow anything to request services from the internet.

But I'd suggest you make certain that WEP or some secure wireless protocol is in place as Mr. Lawrence mentioned. If not anyone within range of your router can link into that point of your network with little effort. I would think it's a low risk, but it's a risk. I have not looked into the security issues of wireless and protocols as I am not using them.

so what does it take to update redhat 7.3 for security issues. #reply-18187335
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