Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DSL and AT&T. About time.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2009-08-08, David <david@pythontoo.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Been using Bellsouth which is now AT&T for the last 6 years.
>> You should get a modem from them, I have a Westell 6100;
>> http://www.amazon.com/Westell-6100-ADSL2-Modem-Router/dp/B000QPPY0A
>> It has two ways to use it Ethernet or usb, use Ethernet and
>> disable the usb. Set up in bridge mode to a WRT54GL;
>>     
>
> If you have a modem that runs in bridge mode rather than in
> router/NAT-firewall mode, then make sure you have a firewall
> between "you" and the modem.  Something like the above
> mentioned WRT54GL works swimmingly (especially if you replace
> the factory firmware with something like OpenWRT).
>
> Do not connect your desktop machine directly to a bridge.
>
> It's possible to harden a desktop such that it can be
> more-or-less safely connected to a bridge, but if the OP had
> that sort of expertise, he wouldn't have asked the question he
> asked. ;)
>
>   

I had thought about picking up a Linksys router and putting it between
my desktop and the modem.  Sort of add some more protection if you
will.  I also plan to change my root password.  Of course, my password
isn't as bad as some I have seen.  May need to disable any type of
remote access too.

Dale

:-)  :-)