Richard Cranium wrote in message ...

If you're in "stealth" mode, your ISP will ping you repeatedly to see
if there's really someone online at that port, but your firewall won't
give them any information.

I fail to see the point in that.
Because of firewalls, they cannot rely on a failure to respond meaning that
nobody is there. Surely, the data flow should tell them that someone is
there, and using the connection.
The only real point I can see is to see if your system is open, as they must
already know that you are there.


Regards,

Peter.