Firewall Protection of the RT314 out of the box

[Eaglescout]

This question is about the Netgear RT314, although I will assume the answer is the same for the Linksys. If you take it right out of the box and set it up, what kind of protection are you getting from the firewall by default? I am up and running, but I know nothing of packet filtering or port forwarding or anything, but I would like to know if I am being protected at all right now. Any insight would be helpful..

Thanks!!

Eaglescout

[glc1]

Originally posted by Eaglescout:
but I would like to know if I am being protected at all right now.

Run "Test My Shields" and "Probe My Ports" from here.

[Eaglescout]

Very Cool website, here are my results.

21
FTP
Stealth! There is NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER that a port (or even any computer) exists at this IP address!

23
Telnet
Stealth! There is NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER that a port (or even any computer) exists at this IP address!

25
SMTP
Stealth! There is NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER that a port (or even any computer) exists at this IP address!

79
Finger
Stealth! There is NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER that a port (or even any computer) exists at this IP address!

80
HTTP
Stealth! There is NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER that a port (or even any computer) exists at this IP address!

110
POP3
Closed Your computer has responded that this port exists but is currently closed to connections.

113
IDENT
Closed Your computer has responded that this port exists but is currently closed to connections.

139
Net
BIOS
Closed Your computer has responded that this port exists but is currently closed to connections.

143
IMAP
Closed Your computer has responded that this port exists but is currently closed to connections.

443
HTTPS
Closed Your computer has responded that this port exists but is currently closed to connections.


I know that when I had zone alarm, I was in full stealth all the way across the board. Is there a way to attain this with the built in firewall on the router?

Thanks!!!

Eaglescout