From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mjx1W-0004NY-3A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:17:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E861FE0BF9; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 15:17:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f185.google.com (mail-yw0-f185.google.com [209.85.211.185]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC4FEE0BF9 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 15:17:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh15 with SMTP id 15so2600637ywh.10 for ; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:17:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=x3lvOBpTBeD0hft81hQw0OPoI1EcUNfq6wA3HF+4Puw=; b=wz82Cz4312WfjxXVlLx+r9c2KNVDG1w8aCpv+3nwgPuRmIXY4wYoRBNPbiceh2SMos pOjLzU6Q6UcvHXWvmpQNmeFFnGiOWl71Yfa3Gzjik97OPE9+WncfykHU53wke9OInyrJ MyE48nG6g2w12D5bqwJYairW5/nDn8UUZqG6s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=k9Xo/KagRLxDkNkEdgqhiKlzNAesSdWw1CUPm5sYx4Wj2vsY6e6VH2QBSSLWcCwcc8 ZpAnXxEXiZYFuzLsYd9iCN2iv+FYnHs0JD4kVKrq0aqwRvjFV45j6AdXgkC7/zmbaQ7k oiwAzTgPyNCGTVhZfr5VRmGQYBakUkBE2fq3M= Received: by 10.90.22.18 with SMTP id 18mr9313760agv.20.1252163450131; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:10:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-12-46-83.jan.bellsouth.net [65.12.46.83]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 36sm1798853aga.54.2009.09.05.08.10.48 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:10:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AA27F78.50409@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:10:48 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090905 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure. References: <4AA235B9.90306@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 00d55f30-b7ba-4c46-9fb2-68dbd445b720 X-Archives-Hash: dc8a33f0de24dcb09f2baf26dcc67902 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-09-05, Dale wrote: > > >> As some may know already, I recently got DSL. >> > [...] > >> The DSL modem I am using is the Motorola 2210. It seems to be >> a gateway thing. I have no router at the moment >> > > The 2210 is a router that is doing NAT with a stateful > firewall. It will (assuming it's not too buggy) prevent > outside access to your network. > > If you buy a second router (e.g. a Linksys or DLink), you'll > just be duplicating the NAT/firewall/routing functions in the > 2210. You can do that if you want. I used to run a two layer > NAT setup with a Cisco 678 DSL modem (configure to forward all > TCP/UDP ports) and an OpenWRT gateway. There were features I > needed that OpenWRT had that the Cisco didn't. > > Unless there's something specific that you want to do that > isn't supported by the 2210 (or you're aware of deficiencies in > the 2210), I probably wouldn't bother adding a second firewall > box. > > I was thinking about buying a router IF I build a second box and need to share the internet with it. The modem only has one port and apparently zero reconfigurability because when I log in, there are no options to change anything except what time it updates the modem software. So, I hope it works well. o_O Dale :-) :-)