I can tell you what I did. I bought myself a switch, and managed to pick up an old PII 350 for free (I think it was a school or library machine that was discarded when computers were upgraded). I bought a $15 lan card to supplement the lan card in the PII machine, and installed BrazilFW.
I can't recommend it highly enough. I now have a Linux router that lets me do things that you would have to pay big bucks to get in a commercial router. I can block as many ip's/domains as I wish to. I have a profile that loads automatically on the nights I run a game server, and it is constantly being updated and improved. Drek Ondřej Hošek wrote:
Tom: 6.0 is the newest for my RP614v3, and has been for -- I fear -- too many years. Netgear might have stopped caring, and my warranty is probably over anyway. :-( Oh well, I first need to upgrade my gaming machine. Guy: Sorry for mystifying you there; my "real-life story" was not used very well. I was referring to all the woes one gets when a router doesn't like internal connections via external IP addresses: there's a problem with my router (let's call it problem A), so people can't connect (until I reboot the router). They see, in my friends profile, that I am on server "192.168.0.7" because the router doesn't let me connect via the external address (problem B). Because of my workaround of problem B (using the internal address), they think I have set sv_lan to 1 or something like it, not because problem A -- the real problem -- is preventing them from connecting. Yeah, my router is a piece of junk. If I replaced it, both problems would probably go away. :-( As for the /etc/hosts idea, that was an analogy. /etc/hosts is nothing but a map from IP addresses to hostnames (and, by extension, vice versa). What I'd propose for Friends would be such a map too, just from "bad" IP addresses (such as "192.168.0.7") to "good" IP addresses or hostnames (such as "208.77.188.102" or "ondrahosek.dyndns.org"). [The map from a bad IP address to a hostname would be useful for us with dynamic IP addresses, since the burden of actually resolving the hostname to an address is on the client.] I don't know, however, how much work this would require to implement, and what risks, if any, there are. Alternatively, I'd want a class action suit against Netgear for selling such junk like my brick, but I fear that few citizens of this Earth have an idea of what the hell internal and external Internet Protocol addresses are. ~~ Ondra On 22.12.07 13:54 Uhr, Tom Leighton wrote: _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
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