On Monday 15 October 2018 10:45:54 Dan Purgert wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 15 October 2018 05:09:05 David wrote: > > [...] > > And the best of both worlds is had buy investing in a good router, > > useing to to Native Address Translation between the dhcp supplied > > address your > > NAT = "Network Address Translation" ;) > > > ISP gives the router when it connects to the modem, to an address > > range that is not forwarded to the internet except by explicit > > instructions in the routers setup, assuming its been reflashed with > > dd-wrt. Thats the > > No need for "reflashed with dd-wrt", that's exactly what a brand new > "all-in-one gateway" from Linksys, etc. will do out of the box > (granted, one may prefer to use *wrt for other reasons). > > > [...] > > > >> In the Debian installer you simply choose to use DHCP (if you have > >> a ISP router modem that provides it) or specify some simple static > >> network address values. The installer does the rest. Or you can do > >> it yourself later, it's simple. > > > > And very insecure. The NAT and firewall in the router is the best > > security you can put in a single common point between you and the > > black hats. You don't need the hassle of local to local firewalls, > > only between you and the black hats in the far east. > > Sure, running a box directly connected to the 'net with no firewall > isn't the greatest idea -- but a few iptables rules, and your PC is > doing exactly what you keep telling everyone to use dd-wrt for ;).
Then please explain that to Richard. I'm from near Missouri. :) -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>