Re: ATTN Tony Whitmore please

From: Tobamore (tobamore@DELETE_MEyahoo.co.uk)
Date: 07/28/02 

From: Tobamore <tobamore@DELETE_MEyahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 20:08:30 +0100

On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 16:28:02 +0100, "Tony Whitmore"
<tony_whitmore@nospamhotmail.com> wrote:

>You may be able to allow connections to the ports
>only from your local ethernet interface. It should be possible to add a
>"deny" rule to close the ports on your public interface, but leaving them
>open on your local network. In addition you could restrict the range of
>valid IP address to just your computer's IP address to stop anyone else on
>your local network attempting to connect.

Thanks Tony and Scott for your help guys. :-)

I was wondering though Tony, could you suggest a simple way of doing the
above? My router is an edimax br6004+ model and the manual isn't too clever,
at least not for an idiot like me. :-)

Thanks again guys, you are most helpful.

#
T.

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