How secure is my Network

Irish Whiskey · 03-26-2003, 04:13 AM

Hello.

Complete Linux newbie here. I have a small Windows network and I use WinProxy as a firewall/proxy. I have just installed Mandrake 9 and this is now my gateway. The installation was painless and the Internet connection is shared and is working well.

I have enabled Smoothwall as a Firewall & set security to 'High' . I guess my question is how secure is my network at these default settings (it is reconfigured after any network changes).

Am I safe enough ??

Thanks

unSpawn · 03-26-2003, 01:26 PM

Safe enough against what?

Pcghost · 03-26-2003, 01:26 PM

Have you run a port scan on your external ip address? If not, go to http://www.pcflank.com and click advanced port scan. It will scan you and tell you if you have any ports open.

Irish Whiskey · 03-26-2003, 05:07 PM

Looks like I'm secure enough.

Thanks PCGhost.