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If you go to page 70 of the 6100's guide, you'll find a screenshot of the general firewall settings. It matches exactly the screen that I got when I clicked on the Westell menu to access the firewall settings. I was surprised to see that the default (and current) value is "No Security," because all of my PC's did well on the Gibson tests (except for the ping test). Could that be the computers' software firewalls in action?
No, it's the nature of a NAT router. An open port is a port where some service is running, on which can be connected. The router doesn't run any services on the outside, so all ports are closed. And because it costs less CPU power to ignore the 'knocking on the door' than yelling 'nobody home', the closed ports are stealth too.
When you want an open port, you'll have to forward it manually in the router's setup (or use uPnP, but that's another story), to point to a service which is running on one of your computers.
Because the NAT router already blocks all incoming traffic by nature, the purpose of a firewall on a NAT router is limited. The following options could be implemented:
- Detect a portscan and close all open ports temporary
- Block outgoing traffic to certain ip-addresses/URL's
- Block ingoing traffic to open ports from certain ip-addresses
- Deep packet inspection to filter active-X components and stuff like that
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On the other hand, since the software firewalls are already in place, one could say that there's very little additional time and effort involved in keeping them running. So isn't it possible that the question boils down to whether you want to dedicate resources on a Win98 machine to a firewall?A good firewall hardly uses any resources (as long as it doesn't do deep packet inspections) compared to antivirus software, and can provide you a lot of information about which processes are talking to whom. So it can be useful to keep a software firewall running.
One last thing (for now, anyway). I assume that none of this affects the wisdom of running antivirus/antimalware applications, as opposed to a firewall?Indeed. It are unrelated areas.
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It's quite easy to find out if your modem is actually a router. When the IP address which shows up on Gibson's site (or on www.whatismyip.com) is a different one then that what shows up in winipcfg (98) or ipconfig (Vista), than it's a router.
What type of modem do you have?
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Any router will do, they just 'talk Ethernet', and any OS which supports Ethernet will just work.
I *think* there is already a router in your modem, else you should have 4 public IP addresses. That is not impossible, but only rare.
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I formatted it with Fdisk and everything went well.
You don't format with fdisk, only partition it. So you still have to format the partition. Rightclick on D: and choose 'Format disk'.
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ClamWin still supports W98, and AFAIK there are no plans to stop the support.
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Did you get the driver from Lenovo?Unfortunately the PCI Serial device was the modem but the driver didn't work0 -
Everest has always worked fine for me.
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I don't think so. This is the output of dmesg after inserting:
and this the output of fdisk -l:usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0639, idProduct=6639
usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 2-1: Product: MP3 Player
usb 2-1: Manufacturer: KONIG
usb 2-1: SerialNumber: F03A2468774C1194
usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access KONIG MP3 Player 0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 496000 2048-byte logical blocks: (1.01 GB/968 MiB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 3e 00 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 496000 2048-byte logical blocks: (1.01 GB/968 MiB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdb:
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 496000 2048-byte logical blocks: (1.01 GB/968 MiB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
mount:Sectorsize is 2048 (not 512)Disk /dev/sdb: 1015 MB, 1015808000 bytes
32 heads, 61 sectors/track, 254 cilinders
Unit = cilinders of 1952 * 2048 = 3997696 bytes
/dev/sdb on /media/KONIG type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=10001,flush,utf8)0 -
What do you want to know? It's this device. When you think it can help you to Support the Community, pm me your address, and I will send it to you. (I just connected it, and saw I was mistaken. It has a 2k sectorsize)I would be interested in more details about that MP3 Player.0 -
How is the partition table organized? The original IBM partitiontable is not usable, is it? Is there another way to define a partition on an internal (boot) harddisk?With 24 PartitionsWhy not?
I'm under the impression that the default partition table is depends on a 512 byte sectorsize.
I have already done the reverse (split one large hard drive into smaller drives) in the experimental versions of my High Capacity Disk Patch for Hard Drives larger than 2200GB. A matching DOS DDO, similar to my BOOTMAN packages, will be required for DOS support and to pass the protected mode validation precedure in the IOS.VXD and ESDI_506.PDR code.Wouldn't is be more elegant to increase the sectorsize, instead of splitting the drive? AFAIK the sectorsize doesn't need to be 512 bytes, and since FAT32 creates clusters of at least 4kB, sectors could get this size without any penalty.
More elegant maybe, but it would require a major redesign. A new partition table format would be required making it incompatable with all existing operationg systems.
I own a 1024 byte sectorsize usb-stick (actually an el-cheapo mp3 player), which is formatted FAT16. W98 has no problems accessing it.
But I couldn't create a partitiontable on it, using linux, while other usb sticks are no problem.
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Do you have access to the target directory? First thing which comes in my mind is using tar or zip or maybe even lfnbk to preserve the long filename, and restore it on the target position.
You did put quotes around the filename, didn't you?Is there a way to force an LFN to be passed through command line parameters.0 -
Maybe it's the colordepth? I vaguely remember that I have had problems with some VNC (don't rememeber if it was UltraVNC) which didn't support 24 bit truecolor, while it did 32 bit, or vice versa. The solution on that particular system was the use of 8 bit color.
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How is the partition table organized? The original IBM partitiontable is not usable, is it? Is there another way to define a partition on an internal (boot) harddisk?With 24 Partitions0 -
VB is hard to read for me, but I *think* you have to pass pt ByRef. In C it should have to be a pointer to the struct.
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cat /proc/swapsBTW - Is there any way for me to check to see if it's working properly, like a utility/command to see if it's being used?0 -
Yes, after applying mkswap. But I don't know what Windows will do with the -now Linux- swapfile.What if I already created a swap file through Windows, could I just use that with the swapon command?
No. Different distro's can use different ways to boot. But in many cases you can add the commands to /etc/rc.local or /etc/rc.d/rc.localAnd... how do I add this file to the startup script, is it the same for every generic Linux?0 -
UltraVNC supports filetransfer, clipboard operations, works on slow connections, but I don't know if it runs on W9x/
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Too bad! According to my MSFN library (April 2001) this function is not even available in W98, but it runs fine. It seems there is a dummy function available. I hexedited opera.exe (10.51) to load OpenThreadToken() instead, which should always return FALSE, due to a wrong handle type.This edited version still runs fine on my W98SE system, which indicates the function is not really needed. You could try it, if you want: Link
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Did you try the Classic Installer?
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It is not, or hardly, possible to put a Windows swapfile on a Linux swappartition, because it doesn't contain a filesystem. However, it is possible to use a file as swapspace for Linux. You'll have to add some commands to the Linux startscript, something like
mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5
mkswap /mnt/hda5/pagefile.sys
swapon /mnt/hda5/pagefile.sysI don't know which Windows will do with a swapfile which is used this way.
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Can anyone recommend a small light weight free typing program for all operating systems?
All operating systems? Abiword is available for MS Windows 95 and newer, GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris (2.6, 7,8,9,10), AIX, HP/UX (10.20, 11.0), OSF/1, Tru64, Mac OS X 10.2 and later, QNX and BeOS.
This is an impressive list, but I can easily designate some OSses which are not supported.
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FAT12 is limited to 4086 Clusters so it never uses more than 12 Sectors per FAT. Any more Clusters would be recognized as FAT16.
128MB FAT12 Partitions need to use 32K Clusters.
My modded IO.SYS raises the FAT12 limit to 512MB, 16GB with larger Sectors.
So this gives 4MB clusters?
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So Opera 10.10 is the last stable version for the 9x systems?
Hello:
According to the Opera web site ( http://www.opera.com...rt/kb/view/386/ ), the systems requirements for the current version of Opera (v10.10) is Windows 2000 minimum and at least Windows XP recommended. So while Opera may function on Win 98/ME, it's not officially supported. The recommendation of Opera is to use an older version of Opera (such as v9.64) for older systems.
Cheers,
Jerry
Yeah right. The recommendation of Microsoft is to stop using W98, and use W7 instead. A recommendation which I also don't follow.
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Need help with printinh a linked list in c
in Programming (C++, Delphi, VB/VBS, CMD/batch, etc.)
Posted · Edited by Mijzelf
Assuming the last 'next' member is zero:
void print_list(sItem* head)
{
for( ; head; head=head->next )
{
printf( "%d\n", head->data );
}
}