Get a separate firewall box... Any pentium will be more than enough, or even a 486 at a pinch.
If you're really stuck, give me a yell. -----Original Message----- From: Nic Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 5 March 2004 12:01 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Telstra cable 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.
