On 06/10/2013 12:44 PM, mechanic wrote:
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:55:29 -0700, Todd wrote:

On 06/09/2013 04:28 AM, mechanic wrote:
On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 17:47:35 -0400, Juan Wei wrote:

If you are shooting through a NAT router (if your
I.P. is 192.168.xxx.xxx, you have a NAT router),
you will need to connect directly to the Internet.

How do you do that?

And why?

Because a NAT router will reject unsolicited packets
comes at it and these test packets will never get
through to your firewall. Reasonable test of your
router. But, not of your personal firewall.

So? What gets through to my machine - or not - is what I want to
know. If it's the router that stops the bad guys that's fine by me.


True, but not the question. The question was how well a
particular personal firewall worked. You can't test it if
something else is in the way.

By all means, put the NAT router back in place after you
test your personal firewall!