Re: Ports getting hammered?


"SHRED" <noone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:vLcuf.6541$JT.5496@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> I no very little about firewalls.
> My setup:
>
> Cable access
> 4 port SMC Barricade Router
> 2 computers
>
>
> I recently installed ZoneAlarm and it is blocking attempts at port access.

And you know this is happening with WAN Internet IP(s) or LAN IP(s) - your
machines behind the router?
>
> I thought that having a physical firewall, like the SMC, stopped that at
> the router?
>

You may have something else happeing like some kind of mis-config of the
router and there are ports open or something like that or it's LAN traffic
that ZA is blocking.

Duane :)


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