For Router Users

[Switeck]

Get off the 192.168.*.* netblock will help if you're behind a router.

Otherwise, if you actually monitor network traffic you will be seeing floods of 192.168.*.* connections coming in!

[Wizzandabe]

Originally posted by Linkton@8 March 2003 - 22:16
So you're just hoping a random cracker doesn't notice the huge amount of ports open, ready to attack? That just doesn't make sense to me...

i thought routers hide you pc from the net. maybe i am rong then.

[Yusuke]

Originally posted by wizzandabe+12 March 2003 - 16:27--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (wizzandabe @ 12 March 2003 - 16:27)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--Linkton@8 March 2003 - 22:16
So you&#39;re just hoping a random cracker doesn&#39;t notice the huge amount of ports open, ready to attack?&nbsp; That just doesn&#39;t make sense to me...

i thought routers hide you pc from the net. maybe i am rong then. [/b][/quote]
They do, until you go and start opening ports up with port forwarding (or something similar), than those ports are visible to anyone with the knowhow to find them...
That&#39;s why it&#39;s not a good idea to go arbitrarily opening ports with port forwarding