On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Bruce Marshall wrote: > On Wednesday 18 December 2002 11:18 am, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: > > Folks, > > > > DSL has finally come down my street (we are out of range of the normal > > process and needed a repeater). My DSL modem** was delivered > > yesterday and I'm told the line should go active on Thursday. > > > > ** Actiontec Wireless-Ready DSL Gateway that (in theory) includes > > firewall, router and 4 port switch. > > > > I have a small home LAN with two Linux (SuSE 7 & 8) workstations, a > > Mac (LCIII) and two laptops, one Linux (RH7) and one Win95. The two > > workstations are the only machines normally left on. > > > > I've been reading all I can find on how to set this up so that all my > > machines can access the internet through this gateway without > > (excessive) risk. > > > > I'll be hosting a couple of low-traffic web sites on one of my > > workstations, though, so I need to learn about setting up an Apache > > server. I'm also concerned about security loopholes. > > > > Any considerations or suggestions for securing my network would be > > appreciated. TIA. > > > > > > The best way (IMHO) to check on the security of your DSL setup would be > to run something like nmap against it from the outside. See what ports > are open.. (any BTW, you'll have to open port 80 for your webserver > and you need to find out how to do that) > > I have DSL from Ameritech and the modem itself was just that: a modem > with only one port and no firewall. Adding a Linksys Router added the 4 > ports and a (seemingly) very good firewall... hopefully your modem does > all that as well.
I'll add that i've got DSL and it was very easy to setup (uses PPPoE). If you're looking for a fast, easy & reliable router/firewall, you might want to check out FreeSCO, which runs off of a floppy: http://www.freesco.org/ -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
