Idiot's Guide

Just got broadband and i have a wireless ADSL router with no firewall which
uses the connexant chip set. This leaves ports 21,80, 254 and 255 open.
It has NAT and port forwardingcapabilities. I am looking for an idiots
guide to networking and making this setup secure. Any pointers??

Ian

"Ian Bell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Just got broadband and i have a wireless ADSL router with no firewall
which
> uses the connexant chip set. This leaves ports 21,80, 254 and 255 open.
> It has NAT and port forwardingcapabilities. I am looking for an idiots
> guide to networking and making this setup secure. Any pointers??

The usual method to hide oen ports in this situation is to forward them to a
non existant IP address on your internal network. They should then give no
reponse to any probes

Paul

On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 22:56:45 +0100 and in article <2n7rhcFttggiU3@uni-
berlin.de>, Ian Bell said...
: Just got broadband and i have a wireless ADSL router with no firewall which
: uses the connexant chip set. This leaves ports 21,80, 254 and 255 open.
: It has NAT and port forwardingcapabilities. I am looking for an idiots
: guide to networking and making this setup secure. Any pointers??
:
I would search http://groups.google.com for a string of words to help
your query - use group:uk.comp.home-networking.


ie, 'networking help + ADSL + router group:uk.comp.home-networking'
should throw up a fair few good results.

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chris

chris wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 22:56:45 +0100 and in article <2n7rhcFttggiU3@uni-
> berlin.de>, Ian Bell said...
> : Just got broadband and i have a wireless ADSL router with no firewall
> : which
> : uses the connexant chip set. This leaves ports 21,80, 254 and 255 open.
> : It has NAT and port forwardingcapabilities. I am looking for an idiots
> : guide to networking and making this setup secure. Any pointers??
> :
> I would search http://groups.google.com for a string of words to help
> your query - use group:uk.comp.home-networking.
>
>
> ie, 'networking help + ADSL + router group:uk.comp.home-networking'
> should throw up a fair few good results.

Already done that. Loads of articles that either assume certain knowledge
or different hardware hence my request here.

Ian