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Originally posted by lynx@24 February 2004 - 20:11
That is not actually a good idea, you will be opening your machine to attack from outside through those ports. You should be able to permit access to certain IP addresses or ranges of addresses instead.
If your home network does not have direct access to the internet, you can permit access to everything with addresses on your home network.
Alternatively if you have a router which is giving out addresses to your home network, you can permit access to addresses in the range given out by your router.
could you open everything from 192.168.*.* ?? or would that let otehrs with 192.168.xxx.xxx form outside in although those arent there internet ip's?