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[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, mylar wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 21:29, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> > Hello, now to a different problem,
> >
> > I've shut down internet access to my house except during specific
> > times of the day to cut down on the use by my teenagers.  I'm doing
> > this with my Linksys router.  One thing I do have set up is a 24/7
> > opening for my FC9 box to run Fetchmail so my online mail boxes done
> > get too full.  This seems to be working fine.
> >
> > BUT I also would like to open up SendMail, from all machines, so I can
> > send email 24/7 also.
> >
> > Any ideas on this?
> >
> > Brad
>
> I don't know how your network is set up  but can't you block access to
> all but port 25 during those  hours ?
>
I have the ability to block ports and I could set that up but it
appears to block all ports when the web is locked out so I need
to UNBLOCK ports.

BUT I can give it a shot.  I know SMTP is port 25 but what ranges
do I want to block and still have usability within my home
network?  i.e. do I block 0 to 24 and then 26 to ?? or will that
shut too much down?  BTW I only have TWO ranges I can block.

Thanks

Brad