|-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Brian Meadows |Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 5:14 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Security for Mandrake | | | |Living in a very rural area of Pennsylvania, I have a choice |of exactly one cable access provider, and they're a bit |paranoid, to put it mildly. They've managed to configure their |access systems in such a way as to (deliberately!) prevent use |of a router as a hardware firewall, unless you buy their much |more expensive "commercial" access. | If Linux can access the internet, there is really no way for them to detect it's usage as a IPCHAINS/NAT MASQ host. Many ISP's are set up to only authorize a specific host, etc. Since MASQ makes all the trafic appear to come from one host, it will work where other systems fail. -JMS
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