Re: [SLUG] inbound connection attempt gets past hw firewall

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Mon May 23 2005 - 11:24:39 EDT


On Mon, 23 May 2005, Sick Twist wrote:

> My home linux box is hooked up to a Linksys BEFSR41 which is behind a
> Linksys RT31P2. I noticed that Firestarter detected and blocked an inbound
> connection attempt on port 40379. It appears as though this attempt got
> past the hardware firewall on the RT31P2. I have a few ports being
> forwarded on the hw firewall but 40379 is not one of them. Am I missing
> something?

The caller is ON YOUR LAN! GET OUT!

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