Try running nessus against it. nessus is open source and compiled on my SuSE box after I installed yacc, bison and lexx (or something like that). nessus will open your eyes :) George Mark Phillips wrote: > > 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 > > ________________________________________________ > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't > post > > to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > ________________________________________________ > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't > post > > to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > ________________________________________________ > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't > post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post > to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss