Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3666 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 12:37, eddie.howson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Monday 14 Mar 2005 15:56, Louis Richards wrote:
> Maybe I didn't say that quite right.  The LinkSys is at home and set to 
> forward port 22 to my home computer (I have more than one but the linksys is 
> set to forward to the main machine).  Interestingly enough sometimes I can 
> get through sometimes I can't.  I think I need some method of ensuring that 
> the LinkSys forwards to the correct port, I'm stuck at that point.  Maybe the 
> solution is not to use the firewall on the LinkSys and only use the 
> SuSEFirewall.
> 

Maybe you would be better off by starting -with- the linksys firewall
first and then use the SuSEfirewall.

This way you can figure out if it is a port forwarding issue on the
linksys and then fine turn your internal firewall.

When I was working I only used the linksys port forwarding (at home) and
never had problems. It does a good job when you run it in stealth mode
for keeping critters out. But you will always have port scanners looking
no matter what you use for a firewall.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998

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