On 11/02/2014 07:28 AM, Scott Allen wrote:
On 1 November 2014 20:45, D. Hugh Redelmeier <[email protected]> wrote:
| From: Scott Allen <[email protected]>
| I've found TP-Link products to be inexpensive and reliable, such as:
| <http://www.tplink.ca/en/products/details/?categoryid=221&model=TD-8616>
If that is just a modem, as it claims, why does it list this feature:
Built-in firewall protects against Internet attacks
I was puzzled by that as well. (I don't own this device.) Could be it
was incorrectly copied from the spec's for a combination modem/router.
There's no mention of a firewall feature in the user guide, so it's
either incorrect or something that's not user configurable. Protection
from buffer overflow/DOS attacks perhaps?
As I mentioned in another post, I've worked with these. The are a full
router. You never find 'modem only' devices any more. The functionality
for a router is so damn cheap. But they are also so cheap that you can
wilfully waste that router functionality.
From a design perspective you grab System on a Chip, many which come
with two or more Ethernet devices built in, connect one of them to the
ADSL chip-set, the other to an external jack and slap it on a board with
some LEDs. A little software and your done.
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Scott Sullivan
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