With all due respect, I think the man has a personal prejudice towards 
routers and/or anything remotely related to networking!

Maynard Riley wrote:

>Vic,
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>>But noone has told me HOW to determine wht ports I
>>need. 
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>You only need ports opened for services which you are running, which
>you can discern by running 'netstat -l' which shows the active
>listening ports on your system, which in your case I understand to be
>none because you're not running programs to accept new inbound
>connections for mail(25) pop(110) web(80) etc. as listed in the
>%etc/SERVICES file.
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>>GFibson tells me I have two stealth ports,
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>Those are probably blocked by your connectivity provider, since you've
>said that you don't have any other firewalls which would be doing the
>block/drop/stealthing.
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>>I also think a differant port is used by FTPbrowser,and,I
>>think by Mozilla when ftp'img.
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>FTP is tricky, but by now most clients, servers, and firewalls can
>probably handle it OK. If not, you can "open" port 20 and that should
>help with those connections and not increase your security risk. 
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>>So,using by guess and by golly could
>>take the better part of a year,as I believe there are over 5000
>>ports.
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>There are over 63,000 of those [logical] ports ;-}
>Your router may come with 4 or 8 physical "ports"/plugs for network
>connections.
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>The standard appliance for connecting a few family computers to the
>Internet is a switch/router combination by which the switch connects
>all the local computers (same function as a hub, with better
>performance operation), and the router provides NAT (network address
>translation) for each of those locally attached computers. NAT by
>itself does not allow incoming connections to local computers.
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>Most of them can be configured to set one of the ports/plugs as DMZ or
>some such which can then run servers, but you may not have to worry
>about that, other than to not accidently enable it, or plug into its
>dedicated port/plug on the router.
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>You're doing this because you hadn't read a short tech manual in a long
>time?
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>Cheers/2,
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>--Maynard
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