3com used to make little dialup to ethernet thingies. once you're on ethernet instead of a phone line, any of those little firewall appliances will give up to go.
of course, you could avoid both appliances and use the built-in firewall in xp... another possibility is black ice. it is cheap and good. hth, jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Mink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 2:31 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [TriLUG] OT: Dialup Firewall? > > > Hi Everyone, > I got a frantic phone call from my completely computer illiterate > father this morning. His home computer was getting hit with Master > Blaster. My folks have a dialup account with the local version of Bill > and Ted's Excellent ISP. They're in very rural PA. Since we > all know how > good M$'s security is, does anyone know of a dialup version of the > little router/firewall appliances broadband users have? The idea of > their uncustomized XP machine hanging out on the internet scares me. > I've done some poking around, but have not been able to find one. > Seems like there would be enough customers for such a product > to exist. > I am very comfortable with iptables, but I don't want to support a > dialup machine 600 miles away. They also don't have room for > another PC. > I really need some kind of little appliance. > > TIA, > Ken > -- > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin > " 'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it > is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."--William Pitt > > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
