[techtalk] Internet Connection Sharing

[Mark Foster]

www.zonelabs.com

They do one of the better free ones.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Merrill" <david at lupercalia.net>
To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Internet Connection Sharing


> On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:11:36PM -0500, Julie wrote:
> > From: coldfire <rolick571 at duq.edu>
> > > well, i particularly enjoy networking stuff ... so if you need any
help,
> > > feel free to post and i'd love to help out as i'm sure others would
too :)
> > > quick question .. are you using ipfwadm, ipchains, or iptables?
> >
> > ... and speaking of internet stuff, I just signed up for Roadrunner
> > and it will be a week or three before I have a Linux machine that
> > I'm able to use as a firewall.
> >
> > Is there any hope for running a Windows 98 machine connected
> > to the Internet with file sharing enabled and =not= get hacked in
> > the first hour I'm connected?!?  The machine I was supposed to
> > be getting in to run all this stuff isn't going to be ready until next
> > week, so this machine needs to stay running Windows until then.
>
> There are software firewall programs for Win98 that should make it
> safer. Not really safe, but safer. I don't know of any free ones,
> though.
>
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