Subj : Re: Got it!
To   : Gamgee
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Thu Jul 17 2025 10:26:20

Hi Dan,

G> Absolutely.  Thankfully, the only Windows around here is my wife's 
G> desktop, so I only have to turn it off once.  ;-)

Yeah, at John Deere, they had so many problems becaue HQ -insistred- on leaving WF on and every time we had to update Windows via SCCM, that firewall would break and a manufacturing line would go down which was an expensive process.  I'd log into the master controller system for that line, disable WF, and nine times out of ten, the line would magically work again.

Just doing my job!

I am looking at moving from pfSense on my edge firewall to OpenWRT.  OpenWRT looks to be easier and much more functional for me since it has so many extensions.  I'll probably put that off until next month.  The next few weeks are going to be busy for me.

I am also converting dozens of CIDR ranges to subnet so I can use the built-in port of AIX's firewall in ArcaOS.  With ports 22 and 23 closed, I'll have a lot less problems that I did.  I just want to keep these so-called security scanners from questionable "security firms" from portscanning my system constantly.

-- Sean


....I know a good tagline when I steal one.

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