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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (15146)	1/21/2001 1:49:54 PM
From: Rick Faurot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

OpenBSD looks very interesting. Thanks for the links. The author of the first article makes the same point I've been making about fixed IPs: "I've heard from a number of people who over the past few years have gotten broadband connections at home and within very short order had their home network port-scanned by outsiders. If you think your network -- home or office, tiny or vastly corporate -- doesn't need real security these days, you're living in denial." It's going to take me awhile to assimilate OpenBSD. One thing I love about my wonderful freebie firewall Zonealarm is the amazing stealth that it produces. I have tried various security testers on it and none of them have ever been able to detect ANY presence of my computer on the net! So this would be my goal for a server/router network setup. R

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (15146)	1/21/2001 6:54:43 PM
From: CatLady	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Cheeky Dude, I was going to go the OpenBSD route for a firewall, got the software, even bought an OpenBsd firewall book. But I got stuck when I found out that my cable service requires WINS name resolution ( WINS = Windows naming service ) be enabled. I couldn't find out if OpenBSD had a way to support WINS so I shelved the project. Do you have any ideas about WINS support in OpenBSD?

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (15146)	1/21/2001 11:38:09 PM
From: Stoctrash	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

Cheeks....do you or anyone know the trick to get Win98 to remember the windows and programs you have open when you shut down so that the next time you start up those same windows (ie, IE broswers and url addresses) automatically load when you start up. I know my old old win95 pc did this and damn I miss that neat feature. I'm not talking the StartUP folder here....this is a dynamic thing where it remembers each time what IE browsers you have open, OE, etc etc.. ...going to lurk at some WinTips sites members.aol.com ..can't find this trick...still lurking..