[iconicmoronic]

is anyone familiar with the firestarter firewall program?
i'm wondering if allowing traffic from sample ip 000.000.000.000 on ports a-z forces all incoming traffic to use those ports, or if it rejects anything not on those ports?

is there a way I can redirect unsolicited traffic to those ports only so that the traffic will not be stopped?

also, i need to find out what model my motherboard is and i cannot locate a model type on the board itself. is there a program for linux that can detect this? my post in the hardware section seems to be attracting windows information.

all i know about it is that it is a NLP motherboard with a Pentium III processor. the reason i ask is that i want to upgrade the processor when the opporitunity presents itself.

thanks!

[metweek]

Originally Posted by iconicmoronic

is anyone familiar with the firestarter firewall program?
i'm wondering if allowing traffic from sample ip 000.000.000.000 on ports a-z forces all incoming traffic to use those ports, or if it rejects anything not on those ports?

is there a way I can redirect unsolicited traffic to those ports only so that the traffic will not be stopped?

I only have limited experience with firestarter but I am pretty sure that the firewall will reject anything not on those ports. I do not totallt understand what you want to do but it sounds kind of like port triggering. => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_triggering

Originally Posted by iconicmoronic

also, i need to find out what model my motherboard is and i cannot locate a model type on the board itself. is there a program for linux that can detect this? my post in the hardware section seems to be attracting windows information.

all i know about it is that it is a NLP motherboard with a Pentium III processor. the reason i ask is that i want to upgrade the processor when the opporitunity presents itself.

If you are running a window manager like KDE or Gnome they have built in system property panes where you can view system device data. If using the CLI you can retrieve system information by viewing the contents of folders under "/proc" ie. cat /proc/cpuinfo
I don't know of any software as informative as SI SANDRA for linux.

[Squashman]

I have never used it. I just have an Iptables script that I run. I disallow everything right off the bat and then only allow certain traffic in. Which is usually just port 22, 80 and 443.