[lug] how to track forged packets in a virus spoof

[Mr Viggy]

That's what I thought originally.  But a friend was able to connect to 
my Linux box to FTP stuff, before I got the VPN safe addy.  Of course, 
that doesn't mean too much.  But I would think that they would filter 
incomming 21 packets.

Anyhow, it doesn't really bother me.  I haven't had a problem.

:-)

Nate Duehr wrote:
> Mr Viggy wrote:
> 
>> Interesting you should mention filtering.  When I asked my ISP what a 
>> "VPN safe static IP address" was, they told me that they would 
>> "remove" all the filters from my IP.
>>
>> At the time I didn't think anything of it.  But now I'm thinking that 
>> perhaps my ISP performs this filtering you speak of (they certainly 
>> don't filter incomming crap; I get scanned and probed ALL the time).
>>
>> Viggy
> 
> 
> That sounds more like they filter certain port numbers, since in a VPN 
> connection you'd be using your assigned IP address and tunneling other 
> IP addresses through the encrypted "pipe" inside your normally-addressed 
> and routed packets.
>