On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 12:00, you wrote: > 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.
The TelstraClear cable modems do not do NAT. You can either buy a router that does NAT - effectively a hardware firewall, or you can put IPCop on an older or low-spec PC that you've scrounged from parts, or plug it straight into your always patched, iptabled linux workstation (better than plugging into windows box but not as good a separate firewall). Yuri
