Breakin attempts

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 06:07 +0000, g wrote:
> Steve Blackwell wrote:
> <snip>
> > so it appears that someone was trying to break in to my machine.
> 
> do you have 'ping reply' enabled on your cable modem?
> 
> if so, i would suggest that you disable it so you are not visible.

It might help against naive attempts, but there are other ways of
checking visibility.

poc