jmhayes Wrote: > I know Perl. And I also know a dumb feature when I see one :) I didn't > come here to pick a fight, and I don't think I read anywhere that the > device was "designed for a firewalled local network" -- a lot of the > features are all about streams. Streams happen, ya know? There's a > password feature on the server; how does the device get around it?
I agree with you, the security of slimserver should be more complete. And Open Source just means a user *can* contribute, it's not a publisher's abdication of responsibility. The idea that a product *requires* a firewall is bad design. "Border Security" is a dubious concept in computer security and is not a substitute for essential host-level security. My Slimserver is in a commercial datacenter, I access it from home and from work via a VPN. I find this works very well. The Squeezebox sends its MAC address in-protocol so the Slimserver is aware of a player's MAC address even when they're not on the same local network. Modify the server to use player MAC address rather than the source IP address and you should be in business since the SB MAC address won't change even if its source IP address does. The MAC address effectively becomes the password and it's already sending that so there's no need to modify the SB itself. -- rudholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rudholm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2980 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22424 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
