Re: firewall

[Chema Celorio <chema celorio com>]

Paul :
	It was nice from you answering rob. But if we
keep answering this off-topic questions, users will
keep asking them. I don't think we want to make gnome-list@
a general unix help mailing list, we allready receive enough
emails....

Chema

Paul Warren wrote:
> 
> This question is somewhat off-topic for this list - you should ask a
> general linux/networking forum.  Here are some answers:
> 
> On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, rob smith wrote:
> 
> > I am using the firestarter(firewall program)...I get the messages listed below
> > can someone explain them to me...please  By the way I checked the site for a faq
> > or q/a but couldn't find anything.
> >
> > Port       IP of sender        Service           Time
> > 78        23.222.24.1                 Bootpc                  Jun 11...
> 
> bootp is a protocol for booting diskless machines.  They find a server
> using broadcast traffic, so this is nothing to get excited about.
> 
> > 125       23.222.0.5          Ident                   Jun 11...
> 
> ident is a service that can be used to determine the username on a remote
> box.  On a mulituser machine this is important so that if user A on box X
> does something bad to box Y, admin of box Y can write to admin of box X
> with the details of the ident returned by X when user A connected to
> Y.  Again, this is perfectly normal - expect to see this when you connect
> to an FTP server, or other remote services.
> 
> > 137       207.71.92.193               Netbios                 Jun 7....
> 
> netbios traffic = windows rubbish.  Windows networking is powered by
> pumped tonnes of crap out onto the broadcast address.  All this means is
> that you are sharing a subnet with a Windows machine.  This is perfectly
> normal.
> 
> Paul
> 
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