Joel, I know I'm a couple of days behind but... If you download portsentry from http://www.psionic.com the file portsentry.conf has 3 blocks of port numbers listed for (paraphrasing) lax, normal and paranoid. HTH Steve > Joel Dudley wrote: > > OK, I was trying to get an idea of standard port blocks > for security reasons to put in place on a router. I know > that there is no such thing as a standard set of port > blocks, however, there surely must be a few port > blocks that you security gnomes out there keep fresh in > your memory as standard procedure. I will leave the can > of Mountain Dew in front of me unopened as a sacrafice for > this arcane knowledge. Thanks. > > - Joel > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power > of reason, the > story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains > of ignorance; he is > about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself > over the final rock, > he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been > sitting there for > centuries." > > - Dr. Robert Jastrow > Founder of NASA"s Goddard Institute for space > studies > > -- Carpe cerevisiae