Re: opening ports

[andreimpopescu@gmail.com (Andrei Popescu)]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 06:56:49PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 05:06:08PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >>Are you using "service" in the technical sense? Like FTP, for
> >>example? My firewall drops all packets, just like no daemon
> >>were running.
> >AFAIK if you have no firewall and no daemon listening there is still
> >some response (service not available?).
> 
> Are you saying that if you shut down your etherport and stop the
> IP daemon, that the hardware does some sort of handshake?

IP daemon? What do you mean by that? I thought IP stuff is implemented
in the kernel.

I guess if shut down all software related to the network there will
be no answer, but then why would you connect it to the internet?

Regards,
Andrei
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