Ladies & Gents:
Please accept my appologies for my assinine post below?????

Dale A Cook wrote:

>With all due respect, I think the man has a personal prejudice towards 
>routers and/or anything remotely related to networking!
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>Maynard Riley wrote:
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>>Vic,
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>>>But noone has told me HOW to determine wht ports I
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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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