Received: from darkside. (darkside. [210.8.201.180]) by mail. (Weasel v1.20) for ; 05 Aug 2001 01:00:00 From: "Digest" To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 01:00:00 +1000 (EDT) Priority: Normal X-Mailer: CASMailer 1.0 for OS/2 Warp PPC 1.05 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 139 Message-ID: <200108040100.000029G6atmail.> Reply-To: ianatos2site dot com Date:- 05 August 2001 Please reply to ianatos2site dot com to post to the list. A small problem with the list software replacing email address. 1================================================ Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 17:59:29 +0200 From: Roger Troost Subject: Re: [os2genau] Hacker questions Hi Graham, ** Reply to message from Dr Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist on Thu, 02 Aug 2001 13:41:27 +1100 (EDT) > out of interest, with all this excitement about virus and worms and hackers, now that > we are on ADSL and with our Warp 4.5 box and Internet Gateway with Injoy Firewall > running.... > > is there a way that I can perhaps regularly check to see if some one has attempted > to hack into our Internet Gateway machine? You can check your vulnerability online at Steve Gibson's Research page at http://grc dot com Try checking your shield and your ports. Kind regards, -- Roger Troost, Bunde, NL Polarbar / eComStation user 2============================================== Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 17:02:22 +0000 From: Frank Bendon Subject: [os2genau] Perr to peer Hi Has anyone come across a good description of how peer-to-peer works and how to get it going ?? Frank Bendon 3============================================== Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 18:01:02 +1000 From: Daryl Pilkington Subject: Re: [os2genau] Hacker questions Hi Graham, Ian Manners is on the right track with hardening a gateway. Another thing to look at is not running the gateway on anything higher than a P166. The reason is, is even if they hack into it, they don't have a lot of processing power to play with, meaning they are unable to mount serious Denial of Service Attacks. Running IJF using NAT on OS/2 is excellent, due to the lack of OS/2 experts out there, they are less likely to get anywhere using usual Windoze or Unix commands. NAT itself is quite secure, as Ian has already mentioned. Essentially you need to make an OS/2 box without: REXX TCP/IP Applications Java File & Print All you need is MPTS. -- Regards, Daryl Pilkington //// The PC-Therapist, Business Computing Integration O OS/2 Warp, Redhat Linux, DB2 IBM Certified Systems Expert email: darylpatpc-therapist dot com dot au ICQ: 91914134 Tel: +61-2-8902-1300 Mob: +61-425-251-300 Fax: +61-2-9411-3720 Mob SMS: 0425251300.0000atorangenet dot com dot au (120 characters max, send no carriage returns) 4============================================== Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 18:15:56 +1000 From: Daryl Pilkington Subject: Re: [os2genau] SOLA 520RM UPS (Was Hacker questions) Hi Graham, The best software is the Tripplite software, which is client-server. The SOLA UPS software does not work with OS/2 Warp 4, (or WS4eB), it only works with OS/2 Warp 3. The server part of the Tripplite runs on the PC with the serial cable from the UPS. Any machine which also runs from the UPS needs the client software installed, including modems etc. *Do Not* run your monitor from the UPS!!! The Tripplite software is a generic UPS software which, with the appropriate script file, can be made to work with the SOLA 520RM UPS. This will have to be written based on the protocol specification of the SOLA 520RM. Whilst this won't be too hard, someone has to do it :) I have 2 other clients using the SOLA UPS, so it is on my "to-do list" but it has not been scheduled. -- Regards, Daryl Pilkington //// The PC-Therapist, Business Computing Integration O OS/2 Warp, Redhat Linux, DB2 IBM Certified Systems Expert email: darylpatpc-therapist dot com dot au ICQ: 91914134 Tel: +61-2-8902-1300 Mob: +61-425-251-300 Fax: +61-2-9411-3720 Mob SMS: 0425251300.0000atorangenet dot com dot au (120 characters max, send no carriage returns)