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Is it 'dangerous' to leave port 8080 open on my router
Is it dangerous to leave port 8080 open on my Linksys router
My self and an employee work from home on our computers here at my business on our LAN via pcAnywhere - we both have 'Hosts' installed on our computers but only one of us at a time can access our pc's
I find I have to go into my routers menu here at the business and leave port 8080 open so I can access the routers menu at home via cable/internet and be able to change the router's port forwarding settings so I can change which pc can be accessed - (it won't let us both access our pc's at the same time)
pcAnywhere use's ports 5631 and 5632 - Are there any other ports that pcAnywhere can be accessed through - and of course the original question - is it dangerous to leave port 8080 open in order to enable access to the 2 pc's - (of course one at a time)
My self and an employee work from home on our computers here at my business on our LAN via pcAnywhere - we both have 'Hosts' installed on our computers but only one of us at a time can access our pc's
I find I have to go into my routers menu here at the business and leave port 8080 open so I can access the routers menu at home via cable/internet and be able to change the router's port forwarding settings so I can change which pc can be accessed - (it won't let us both access our pc's at the same time)
pcAnywhere use's ports 5631 and 5632 - Are there any other ports that pcAnywhere can be accessed through - and of course the original question - is it dangerous to leave port 8080 open in order to enable access to the 2 pc's - (of course one at a time)
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I'm sorry, I'm really not familiar at all with the Linksys product line. Well...I've never touched a Linksys, so its worse than "really not familiar".
Sounds like your Linksys does support VPNing. Your goal of creating a "safe tunnel" is definitely the way to go if you want to reduce the chances of someone you don't want in your systems mucking about. Just make sure your Windoze boxes don't get backdoored. Effective security is, often as not, more the art of making things sufficiently inconvenient for the bad guy without making them too inconvienent for legit users.
You might try a new Question in this TA, with a Title of "Linksys VPN configuration" - I can pretty much guarantee the right ppl will see it (might wait for Monday, tho).
Sounds like your Linksys does support VPNing. Your goal of creating a "safe tunnel" is definitely the way to go if you want to reduce the chances of someone you don't want in your systems mucking about. Just make sure your Windoze boxes don't get backdoored. Effective security is, often as not, more the art of making things sufficiently inconvenient for the bad guy without making them too inconvienent for legit users.
You might try a new Question in this TA, with a Title of "Linksys VPN configuration" - I can pretty much guarantee the right ppl will see it (might wait for Monday, tho).
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Thanks PsiCop - I'll take your advice 'again' and pose the ? you mentioned - on Monday
c'ya (:-)
c'ya (:-)
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I've been avoiding the VPN solution because of exactly how you described it
'complicated'
I'm pretty 'green' when it comes to my new interest - 'networks/networking
My Linksys Router (BEFSX41) mentions 'VPN capabilities'
What I want to 'create a safe tunnel' between is my business and home
Both are connected to the same cable/ISP provider and both have the same Linksys Router at each end - model # mentioned above
Can you possibly direct me to an info site that may explain how to do this in 'green mans' terms
Thanks again - your time and info are greatly apprecaited