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[David Walker]

That still wouldn't protect us from each other.  I've been scanned by a
user in my own neighborhood.

I think blocking incoming ports at the cable modem itself would break
the least amount of things and have the maximum effect.  I think certain
cable modems are capable of this.

In fact I am wondering if my having an old cable modem could be related
to the fact that my port 80 is not blocked.  Does anyone know any more
about this idea?

On Wednesday 22 August 2001 21:37, you wrote:
> On Wed, 2001-08-22 at 21:07, Chris Gotcu wrote:
> > Why doesn't COX just add a firewall to the software they install on
> > every win computer they set up? That's sure to limit the number of
> > zombies considerably.
>
> Because it breaks stuff.  It would be easier (from a support standpoint,
> at least) to "firewall" further upstream from us and just give us home
> users NAT'ed RFC1918 IP numbers via DHCP.
>
> Either way, lots of stuff will still end up broken: at a minimum IRC,
> multiplayer games on Windows, and some FTP implementations still don't
> understand passive mode.