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Torrere · 10-20-2003, 03:03 PM

I don't know all that much about this; I just pretend to.

For firewalls, I think that the idea is to block ports that software you run doesn't use.

I suppose that I had considered a router to be a hardware-firewall, with the computers connecting to the hub/switch which connected to the modem which connected to the router. I haven't tinkered with them though, so I don't really know.

I've traditionally had the 'little fish, big pond' variant of: "I'm a little fish on a 56k modem and I usually don't receive email attachments."

Lovebugz; I imagine that there are probably a lot of us here that don't know much of this.

10-20-2003, 03:03 PM	#26
Torrere a real smartass Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Kirkland, WA Posts: 1,121	I don't know all that much about this; I just pretend to. For firewalls, I think that the idea is to block ports that software you run doesn't use. I suppose that I had considered a router to be a hardware-firewall, with the computers connecting to the hub/switch which connected to the modem which connected to the router. I haven't tinkered with them though, so I don't really know. I've traditionally had the 'little fish, big pond' variant of: "I'm a little fish on a 56k modem and I usually don't receive email attachments." Lovebugz; I imagine that there are probably a lot of us here that don't know much of this.