Re: Ports Open PLEASE!!!!

From: Andrew Mitchell (amitchel_at_removecasey.vic.gov.au)
Date: 03/20/04 

Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 08:35:46 -0800

"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@nospam-comcast.net> said

> Tell them they need a firewall now. A $29 NAT cable/dsl router will work
> until you get something better.

I agree.
The other option is to use a product like IPCop (http://www.ipcop.org) which
will run on an old 486, gives you a fully functional DMZ and is a very secure
product.(Sorry for mentioning this in an MS newsgroup but you could also just
use plain old Linux and make your own firewall using IPTables)

Forget trying to do this with IPSec or shutting down services and do it
properly the first time.

Good luck.
Andy.