Constant recieving on cable modem

[Harry G]

Everything appears OK, and I don't even have Apache installed.  One question 
on reading the boot.msg log, when it says something like:

<notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S21personal-firewall.final start
Starting personal-firewall (final) [active]
done

<notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S21personal-firewall.final start' exits with status 
0

That means the firewall is up and running OK, right?  I mean, where it says 
"<notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S21personal-firewall.final start' exits with 
status 0" , it tells me that the command to start it ran OK.  Am I 
understanding this correctly?

Harry G

On Sat October 12 2002 11:29 am, dep wrote:
> begin  Harry G's  quote:
> | I just started using ATT with a cable modem, external via a
> | networking card, and gkrellm shows that I am constantly receiving
> | small amounts of data.
> |
> | Is this normal?  I am using a firewall set up for a single station
> | with Suse 8.0, and all unnecessary ports are closed.
>
> look at your logfiles. and turn off anything that you don't need, such
> as apache. there's a fairly constant storm of machines trying to
> break in and do things, delivering everything from code red to newer
> stuff.