Re: Newbie: (unwanted) incoming traffice on static DSL line

timmail_at_gmail.com
Date: 11/29/05 

Date: 29 Nov 2005 04:29:30 -0800

John Hyde wrote:
> on 11/20/2005 5:31 PM Leythos said the following:
> > In article <1132535832.012814.258940@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
> > regs@excedere.com says...
> >
> >>Group:
> >>
> >>I am a newbie when it comes to this - I have a static IP DSL line,
> >>running Trend Micro's firewall and a wireless Linksys router (for
> >>roaming about my office/house with laptops.) On the router setup page
> >>there is a list of incoming traffic (a mile long) that lists IP
> >>addresses from around the world. The question is: how do I stop this?
> >>>From what I know, this appears to be access to the router and not my
> >>computer (I am assuming the firewall is protecting my computer--but you
> >>know what happens when you ass/u/me!)
> >>
> >>Anyway if someone could point me to some help on the following:
> >>a) how do I block the incoming traffic? (with the caveat that I
> <SNIP>
> >
> > I hope you've secured your Wireless access - if not, most are in a
> > default setup, which means that anyone near enough can access your
> > network. Make sure that you read this:
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/learnmore/bowman_
> > 05february10.mspx
> >
> >
>
> That link line wrapped for me and maybe for Regs. Try the short one:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/56fc5

You have a couple of options depending on what type of router you have.
1) If the router is also a firewall and its in defualt configuration
you are going to be blocking the incoming traffic. The logs you are
talking about should state that traffic is blocked. If so then you
should not worry about the traffic too much.
2) Depending on what port the traffic is going to you might find that
you can configure your router to stop logging blocked traffic.
3) If your router is allowing the traffic then you have a problem and
will need to configure it to block all incoming taffic.
4) If your router is not a full hardware firewall then you may want to
consider upgrading it. I am assuming that your trend micro firewall is
a software one installed on your system you should not rely on software
firewalls as your main protection.

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