Re: Experience the New Windows

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx>]

Arun Sharma [Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:40:21AM -0800]: 

> On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:26:13PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> > A well secured linux install becomes imperative - even for "home users" in such
> > a case.  Ask any cablemodem / dsl provider or clued user stateside if you want

[...]

> There is a $100 solution for this problem now. The Linksys/Netgear/SMC
> firewall, NAT (or ipmasquerading in Linux lingo), router, 4 ethernet ports, 
> DHCP server all in one. The sad part is, these boxes are quickly kicking

Yeah - you might take a look at Walter Dnes' netgear page at
http://www3.sympatico.ca/walter.dnes/security/netgear.html (and his ipchains
rules at http://www3.sympatico.ca/walter.dnes/security/ipchains.html as well)

	-s

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