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Re: Your Jetstream/ADSL connection is NOT secure

From: David Hawke <dvh_at_pl.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 21:07:57 +1200
Message-ID: <3D1049ED.9030404@pl.net>

Michael Jager wrote:
> claiming to be David Hawke, <dvh@pl.net> said:
>
Its a pretty good claim - tonight, anyway

>
>>To lock it off, you need to set virtual servers for port 23 and
>>port 80, typically to a non-existent internal IP such as
>>192.168.254.254. You should also change the admin passowrd :-))
>
>
> I believe the non-existent IP has to be on the same subnet as the router (if
> you are using the default IP of 192.168.1.1, then making port 23 and 80
> point at 192.168.1.254 will work)
>

Apparently any non-existant IP will do the trick - I just like to
park them well out of the way :-))

David H

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Received on Wed Jun 19 21:08:14 2002

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