STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote: > If your home network connection has a dsl/cable router > with NAT attached to it, things can get a lot simpler. > You can tell the router to forward port 80 to your > machine running apache and that will be the only resource > visible from the outside. NAT (Network Address Translation) > can be a very effective firewall. Thanks for your response. I don't have a router, as I understand that term. I have an ADSL modem, attached by Ethernet to my computer. I assume I am using NAT, since I have a number of other computers (Linux and Windows) attached to the above machine, and they access the outside world through email and the web. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
