Re: Some Questions about my Routers Setup

From: Nicky (hackeras_at_gmail.com)
Date: 08/28/05 

Date: 28 Aug 2005 13:02:07 -0700

Duane Arnold wrote:

> > a) So my first question is that if there is another way of seeing this
> > log file.
> > Maybe some software installed on 10.0.0.1 that will be the first app
> > that will grab the data immediately after my router forwars them to
> > 10.0.0.1 and then give them to the requesetd app? Does such an app
> > exists(if what i say is possbile to be done)?
>
> The only way would be to find some 3 rd party firmware that provided it
> and I doubt it.

Why my suggestion wouldnt work?!?

> >
> > b) Second question what about the hardware firewall of my router? Why
> > dont see an option for that nowhere? Does Speedtouch 530 sucks? Can
> > sol;ution a) aplly here as well?
>
> It's a good NAT router/modem unit I would suspect for home usage.

Whats so good about it if i cant see an option to configure the
hardware firewall if it has any?

> If it were me and I was trying to protect a WEB server, then I would get
> separate units a standalone adsl modem and a standalone packet filtering
> FW router that does logging so I could see the inbound and outbound
> traffic to/from the router, along with the ability to stop inbound and
> outbound traffic by setting packet filtering rules by IP, port or
> protocol.

What router would you pick if it were you?
And also why would you seperate the modem form the router?
Whats wrong having them in 1 device as i have it now?
Does the packet filtering FW router only inspects the heders of a
packet or data as well?

> What kind of Web server do you have and has the O/S, registry, file
> system, user accounts, Web sever such as IIS etc, etc been configured for
> security for a machine that is being exposed to the public Internet?
> Otherwise, you have another Web server out there on the Internet that's
> *hack* bait.

Iam runnign Apache/v2.0.54 on XP SP2 and i also have Kasperksey
Anti-Hacker running on my localhost to monitor outbout connections
since NAT cant handle those and i dotn see any hardware firewall
present.

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