Nope... they just work at the mac level to get you on a hardware level. All
security and anything else is left up to the machine that's connected to it.
It's like a cisco 67X set to bridging mode.
Jamie wrote:
> cable modems are also firewalls correct? your ip address (public) will be on
> the cable modem, but your computers will be on a private network (10.0.0.x,
> 192.168.x.x, ...). So, if the cable modems are like the DSL modems,
> connecting to your IP will not get you your computer, rather your modem. Ive
> never configed a cable modem, but if done many dsl modems (I have 2 that
> arent even being used...) and to set them up to use your dyn-ip, you have to
> forward ports from your public ip to one (or more) of your private ip's. If
> you only have one computer, you can forward all ports to your computer, and
> your dsl modem(router) becomes invisable. Can you do that sort of thing with
> a cable modem?
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