DSL Providors

[Frank Carmickle]

Good points here Raul

On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:

> Amanda.  Having cable, dsl, dialup, t1, isdn, etc is really about the
> same really as far as security.  It's like a front door.  If you leave
> the front door open you can expect anyone to walk in.  With internet

Well cable used to be a real bitch because your interface saw all the
traffic to and from the gateway for many class C subnets in some
cases.  Mostly now the cable modems that are used have some basic routing
in them so that when you tcpdump from that interface you don't see
everyones traffic for 18 miles.

> access regardless of type as long as you take steps to insure your
> security you will be fine.  Windows users use zonealarm for 1 pc and
> advanced firewall routers for other types of setups.  Linux users can
> use ipchains along with utilities such as portsentry to monitor their

Iptables is much cooler.  

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     Frank Carmickle
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