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 1MjwkR-0002NI-9E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:00:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 23848E0C14; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 14:59:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04DEAE0C14 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 14:59:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94AAD642A7 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 14:59:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.182 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.182 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.583, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 1g6evtQaFXQC for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 14:59:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CED5D64CB1 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 14:59:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Mjwjy-0006S1-88 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:59:46 +0200 Received: from mn-69-34-67-62.sta.embarqhsd.net ([69.34.67.62]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:59:46 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by mn-69-34-67-62.sta.embarqhsd.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:59:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure. Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 14:59:23 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4AA235B9.90306@gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mn-69-34-67-62.sta.embarqhsd.net User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: c9b10532-d758-479a-a622-af4b8b0319ea X-Archives-Hash: d42f008befd9f8843bf122722c8a33b8 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. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Everywhere I look I at see NEGATIVITY and ASPHALT visi.com ...