RE: [Sheflug] Security

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

>===== Original Message From "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz> =====
>>  If you use a separate firewall/router box, IP masquerading (sp?) has
>> modules to automagically deal with the things you've mentioned (Quake,
>> FTP, audio streams, ICQ and a bunch of others) - saves a bit of effort
>> :-)
>>
>
>You still need to unlock the ports on the firewall though don't you? I
>thought that they were just helpers for awkward protocols - the firewall
>chains still apply I think.

 Erm, might have to check this.

 Baz.

Barrie J. Bremner

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