Windows Internet Connection Sharing

[George Toft]

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
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