Art Clemons >> Does any of that make sense? I understand that the local >> cable office does have a WAP version as well as a non-WAP >> version of the modem.
> One other approach when the cable company or other > broadband ISP doesn't want to open up its firewall setup > is to have a DMZ IP address which is assigned to your > router. Set up the router to do its normal IP filtering, > NAT and SPI functions, and you're just as safe as if you > had the router connected to a "dumb" modem. This assumes > of course that you use WPA2 with AES and a relatively > long password/pre-shared-key. Security isn't high on the list of concerns, cows out number people at least 5 to 1, the town does have a stop light and it works. I wasn't really concerned with being safe as much as not "breaking" the Internet for our hosts. The mom there is talking about getting a laptop/netbook eventually. > Most ISPs will detail how to setup a DMZ IP address or > range for folks like gamers. Just remember to use the > router and not your computer as the interface. I haven't talked to the ISP, I might do that eventually. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly If this were an actual tagline, it would be funny. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
