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demonhunter
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 Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 11:25 pm Post subject: Other ways round Port Forwarding |
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| a friend of mine told me there is another way of beening able to see my webserver behind a router without doing port forwarding and this is Opening a port on the router it self would this work any risk would i be opened to like getting hacked? or etcc... |
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MonkeyNation
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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Well, port forwarding is opening a port on the router, and sending all the traffic that comes it's way to the corresponding computer.
So really, no, it's virtually the same risk level, as it's the same thing. (On a "What port's open" level anyway.)
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demonhunter
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| Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 7:12 am Post subject: |
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| Can u explain to me what is the same risk level do u mean? |
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MonkeyNation
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| Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 11:50 am Post subject: |
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| demonhunter wrote: | | Can u explain to me what is the same risk level do u mean? |
You asked what the risk level was, I was just pointing out that opening a port is part of port forwarding, so the risk level is the same.
Note: If you didn't get it from the first post, opening a port alone will do nothing, you'd need to forward that port to another computer for it to do anything on connection.
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Anonymoose
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| Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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... Unless your friend was meaning using the routers DMZ function, which is stupidly high risk compared to just forwarding a single port to your PC.
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