Re: Telstra cable

[Nic Scott]

Thanks all, some good info there.

In this day and age I know it is a 'really good idea'(tm) to run some 
kind of seperate firewall box...  But for years now I been running open 
behind a ethernet adsl router. At first I thought my system was 
invincible (coz its linux, right? ;) ) but later realised it was because 
of NAT.

So my question is, exactly how bad would it be if I connect the cable 
modem directly into my linux box? of course with some pretty agressive 
iptable settings (or something)

or should I start scrounging for parts now ;)

Nic.