On 13:05 Sat 07 Feb, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > The security issue has been discussed here in the past. Check the > archives. Shachar Shemesh pointed out, rightly, that if someone forges > your MAC address (something that is well beyond the technical ability > of my elderly next-door neighbours, but in general feasible), gets > your IP address, and starts sending encrypted emails to known Al Qaeda > operators and/or drug traffickers, or spams the world with child > pornography, you may get visitors at an inconvenient hour.
Indeed, but please - do you really believe that something like this will happen? I was more talking in regard to what the representative said - 'people infiltrating your computer'. > Boot time was never an issue for me - I keep my computers and > connections on. I didn't change my iptables rules except that my > internet interface is now eth0 and not ppp0, which was a change in a > variable assignment at the top of the script. YMMV - your needs may be > different. Refer to my reply to Ilya about that matter. > > A big difference for me is that the connection is now *much* more > reliable - ADSL was dropped from time to time, especially during > Saturdays. Cable seems much more stable, but whether or not it is > related to cable vs. ADSL or to DHCP vs. PPTP I cannot say. That is part of the reason I requested a direct connection. I've experienced a couple of times when the PPTP tunnel dropped beneath my feet. I don't believe it'll be so with a DHCP connection. -- Regards, Itamar Ravid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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