From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 10 14:18:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA02330 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:18:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA02316 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:18:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA10843; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:17:47 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199808102117.JAA10843@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:17:41 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: cable modem hookup Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199808101717.KAA25837@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> References: Your message of "Mon, 10 Aug 1998 23:08:18 +0800." X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10 Aug 98, at 10:17, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > PS. Security tip: When you bring your machine up on the cable modem > network, make it "as secure as possible", especially if you want to leave > it up 24/7. You can start by turning off all the services you don't use. > I have tracks of a lot of Bad Guys (TM) doing portscans and other random > nasty things to my @Home-connected machine. Details please! What I've done is install the firewall options and used the simple method. How did you get that tracking? -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message