Re: iptables help needed

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Le 05.06.2008 01:33, Simon Slater a écrit :
| On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 19:31 +0200, François Patte wrote:
|

|> Someone in Tahiti is scanning your computer.... No danger though!
| I need to learn more about regular security checks and firewalling
| before we get a  DSL line. I spotted that IP, didn't know where it came
| from, but at the moment I don't know what is dangerous & what isn't.
| Any pointers to good reading?

http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Security-Quickstart-HOWTO/index.html

just open services you need and good firewall rules make a good security.

| Jun  5 09:27:01 ipex kernel: eth0: Setting promiscuous mode.
| Jun  5 09:27:01 ipex kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode

Have you some "sniffer" running permanently on your computer?

|
| I closed down the browsers on the desktop to remove any extra traffic.
| This is typical of what happens when requesting the Internet from the
| laptop.

Can you simply ping some site from your laptop

ping google.com

and see what happens in the log on your desktop:

tail -f /var/log/messages

You will the logs while they are recorded in the messages file.

FP

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François Patte
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