Kepten! Veer Bean Skend!

[Kendric Beachey]

On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, Monty J. Harder wrote:
>  The URL to have your ports scanned is Gibson Research,
>http://www.grc.com/, look for "Shields Up".

I'm trying this right now against my El Cheapo firewall, an old 486 running
Edge firewall/router (see http://edge.fireplug.net for details).  I described
it on the list a few weeks ago; check the archives.  (unrelated:  as I tested
the URL above, I saw that FirePlug has been acquired by Lineo.  Cool, I guess.)

I'm using the stock, basic, out of the box configuration on Edge, with just
enough config to let it know where the two network cards are.  GRC is still in
the process of scanning my ports, but it's taking quite a while, because every
scan has to keep waiting until it times out, because my li'l firewall is taking
the "talk to the hand" approach.  Here's a sample of the output from the scan...

Port  Service  Status    Security Implications
 21     FTP    Stealth!  There is NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER that a port (or even 
                         any computer) exists at this IP address!

 23   Telnet   Stealth!  There is NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER that a port (or even 
                         any computer) exists at this IP address!

etc. for the other ports it tried (25, 79, 80, 110, 113, 139, 143, 443).  (It's
done scanning now.)

You can take this as another endorsement from me of the Edge firewall.  :-)  I
looked into linuxrouter and it looked okay too, but it looked a little more
difficult to fiddle with to get it to work, whereas Edge was almost hassle-free.

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Kendric Beachey
ak at kc.rr.com