By default, 2Wire Gateway firewall is enabled. It is recommended that you only use one firewall to prevent potential issues with connection speed. If you are running other firewalls such as Windows XP or 3^rd party software, to many firewalls will also affect your connection speed.

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Error 678 is returned by Windows to indicate that the connection attempt failed. Despite what the error description implies (remote computer failed to respond), the connectivity issue may be caused by a hardware or software misconfiguration on your computer, or by a line related issue (static, excess humidity, etc.).

The information provided here can help you troubleshoot error 678 if you are working on a stand-alone (non-networked) computer. If a router is connected to the High Speed Internet modem, disconnect the router and connect the modem directly to the computer. If you do not have High Speed Internet software installed and are using a router, install the High Speed Internet software. Once that is done, you can attempt connection. If the connection is successful, then the issue was router related. If the connection attempt fails, follow these instructions.

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DenyHosts is a script intended to be run by Linux system administrators to help thwart SSH server attacks (also known as dictionary based attacks and brute force attacks).

If you’ve ever looked at your ssh log (/var/log/secure on Redhat etc…) you may be alarmed to see how many hackers attempted to gain access to your server. Hopefully, none of them were successful (but then again, how would you know?). Wouldn’t it be better to automatically prevent that attacker from continuing to gain entry into your system?

DenyHosts also monitors the incoming connections into your server (mainly SSH, FTP, POP and anything with a login/password and logfile). It automatically blocks source IP’s by adding entries to /et/hosts.deny.

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To improve system security in Linux, users needs to change their password from time to time. This should be a general rule in administering your Linux system. Here is the command that lets you setup the days when will the password will expire on a user.

passwd -x 30 user

This forces user to change his/her password after thirty days.