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Hi, I''m a home user who doesn''t understand the workings of the Shorewall firewall (or the linux OS on which I''ve just installed it) very well. Having just installed Shorewall 1.4.6c with a default "home user" configuration I gave it a run against the online ShieldsUp scan. Main surprise was that the ICMP echo was enabled. I''ve since gone into /etc/shorewall/rules and changed (the only entry it contained) from: ACCEPT net fw icmp 8 to: DROP net fw icmp 8 Any ''ping'' attempts are now ignored which apparently is...

...Ping net fw DropPing locnet fw ACCEPT net fw tcp 3880 ACCEPT locnet fw tcp 80 #LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES BEFORE THIS ONE -- DO NOT REMOVE -zones- #ZONE DISPLAY COMMENTS net Net Internet locnet Local Net Local Lan #LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES ABOVE THIS LINE -- DO NOT REMOVE Testing with ShieldsUp! on https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 showed that I have open 3880 port on the ppp0 interface and no open 80 port on it. I have noway to test if the eth0 interface replies on 80 so I want to ask if the configuration is alright. I didn''t find a tip in the documention how to devide the co...