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Re: Gone paranoid: private IP to public IP!!

on 020630 07:48, Juan Manuel Palacios at email@hidden wrote:

> On Saturday, June 29, 2002, at 10:10 AM, Jason wrote:
>
>> Well, if you're really concerned, start using NAT. Then you can open
>> only
>> those ports that you want to have open. It might ease your mind a great
>> deal.
>
> I'm already using NAT. My MOSXS box nat's all my network users, so
> the only two machines visible to my ISP are the Cisco router and my
> server.

...snip...

> But following your suggestion, how could I keep track of the ports
> the nat daemon keeps open in order to forward traffic to my masqueraded
> hosts? What control could I have over these? I don't want to make my
> server the most secure machine on the internet only to find out that an
> intruder got through one of nat's open ports and busted one of my
> network host, or all the network for that matter... !!

You may wish to check-out Brickhouse. It's a well-functioning ipfw-gui and
also manages natd. It offers some well-working presets, but also allows you
to configure rules manually. It's $25 shareware, IIRC...

HTH,

Ron

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