From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Subject: adsl, firewalls, etc. Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:11:32 +0100 Message-ID: <43A66B34.6070102@arrakis.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Midwinter greetings, I have just moved one rung up on the evolutionary scale and got myself an adsl connection. I am probably going to make a few relatively minor changes to my home lan because of this, but before going any further there is one issue worrying me: The free modem my isp provided has no support under Linux so I had to take the router option. It's a Draytek Vigor 2500. The defect configuration leaves ports 20 (ftp-data), 23 (telnet) and 80 (http) open, the rest are stealthed (according to Shields Up). Am I right in thinking this is not such a good idea? I haven't yet had any success in trying to add rules to close these ports, and my isp 'cordially' informs me that this is up to me to sort out, so for the time being I am simply disconnecting when not in use (about 16 hours a day). Am I being over-paranoid? TIA Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs