George,

Thanks for the tip - I passed the security audits, so I must have a
commercial version! (I installed it a loooooong time ago).

I also used Shields Up! (http://grc.com) to check for open ports. The
reports are not as good as from Security Space, but still helpful.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of George
Toft
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 7:53 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Windows Internet Connection Sharing


Hopefully you are using the commercial version and not the
shareware.  The shareware version has some documented
security issues.  http://webpages.charter.net/emailee/win2.htm
provides an example of these.

George


Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> I have been using an old 486 laptop running Windows 95 and Wingate
> (http://www.wingate.net/) for about 5 years now to share my cable modem on
a
> home LAN. The only admin problems I have had are a weekly reboot of the
> Windows machine to reclaim lost memory and occasionally opening a port for
> some special software (i.e. I use AtomTime to set all the clocks on my
> network).
>
> I am sure a Linux based proxy/firewall would not loose memory as Windows
> does so someday I may switch to a Linux solution.
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of
> alandd@mindspring.com
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 8:54 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Re: Windows Internet Connection Sharing
>
> I put Smoothwall firewall on a 100mhz 486 with a 170MB hard drive that
cost
> me $10.  Took about .5 hour, mostly because one of the network cards was
> bad.  Admin is from a web page.  Has no monitor or keyboard attached and
> sits on the top shelf of my computer hutch.  I only have to touch it when
> the DSL goes down or the power goes out.  It just sits there at works.
>
> Now when friends come over and want to hook up or I want the kids to surf
on
> something other than my computer, I just attach to the hub and go.  No
admin
> time at all.
>
> Alan
>
> plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us wrote:
> > alandd@mindspring.com wrote:
> > My suggestion is to avoid the entire issue and
> > setup a 486 without a hard drive running a
> > floppy distro as a firewall/NAT box.
>
> Thanks, Alan.
>
> Two boxes will have to be my limit.
>
> The problem is that I don't have the time or
> the space to set up and maintain YET another
> box, another keyboard, another monitor ...
> I'm a programmer, not a sysadmin.
>
> And I have zero budget for added toys:
> a three-way KVM switch, with cables, would
> cost me $150 or so as far as I can determine.
>
> My Debian box is a Pentium 166, so
> it would not be a bad candidate as
> my front end, but then I'd risk losing
> my network connection any time I was
> tinkering with the Debian box.
> The Windows box is static (I doubt I'll
> ever move beyond Win98), so it should
> be a good portal if that will work.
>
> You can spend your life on this kind
> of thing and never get around to
> developing software ...
>
> Vic
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