Advice sought on machine web-server safe

[Mike McCarty]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote:
> 
> 
>>If your home network connection has a dsl/cable router
>>with NAT attached to it, things can get a lot simpler.
>>You can tell the router to forward port 80 to your
>>machine running apache and that will be the only resource
>>visible from the outside.  NAT (Network Address Translation)
>>can be a very effective firewall.
> 
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> I don't have a router, as I understand that term.
> I have an ADSL modem, attached by Ethernet to my computer.
> 
> I assume I am using NAT,
> since I have a number of other computers (Linux and Windows)
> attached to the above machine,
> and they access the outside world through email and the web.
> 
> 

Even if you don't intend to use NAT, I recommend you get
a router with a firewall in it. I have only one computer
connected to a DSL modem, but I put a router between just
to get the firewall.

Mike
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