Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] router woes

2017-03-29 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On mer. 29 mars 05:02:16 2017, Jorge Almeida wrote: > BTW, I've been using dnscache (from djbdns) for years. I suppose that > protects against spoofing? It depends of from what you want to protect. DNS is an all clear protocol, it’s easy to modify packet. Plus, the DNSSEC deployment is too few,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] router woes

2017-03-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 1:59 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 7:19 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> > > The next hop after the ISP supplied router is another piece of the ISPs > network equipment, so the ISP access to your data is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] router woes

2017-03-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:47 AM, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 28 Mar 2017 22:52:25 Jorge Almeida wrote: > > Many ISPs today implement TR-069 (a standard of the DSL forum) to access > customer equipment remotely for service provisioning. They use configuration > servers

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] router woes

2017-03-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:45 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 22:52:25 -0700, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > It's more a privacy issue that security for me. I have a similar setup > with a virgin cable router, which I set to what they call modem mode, > where only

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] router woes

2017-03-29 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 29 Mar 2017 19:59:18 Adam Carter wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 7:19 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > Which part is to blame? The secondary router boasts 1300Mbps on 5GHz > > WiFi, so I assumed it could deal with 150Mbps on cat5e ethernet cable. > > The power

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] router woes

2017-03-29 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 7:19 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > I have net by cable with nominal speed 200Mbps. The ISP provides a > modem/router Netgear (from Numericable). I disabled the WiFi and I > have 2 computers connected via ethernet to the router. The speed is > about

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] router woes

2017-03-29 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 29 Mar 2017 08:45:33 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 22:52:25 -0700, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > PS. I still would like to know what people in this list think about > > having an ISP managed device as router, re security. Not that I have > > any real option if I want the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] router woes

2017-03-29 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On mar. 28 mars 22:52:25 2017, Jorge Almeida wrote: > I've been using an RT-N16 for years, and it still works fine. They > don't advertise big speeds and I understood it doesn't have the CPU > power to cope. I assumed a new generation router would do the job. Big > mistake. I have an 1G fiber at

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] router woes

2017-03-29 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 28 Mar 2017 22:52:25 Jorge Almeida wrote: > PS. I still would like to know what people in this list think about > having an ISP managed device as router, re security. Not that I have > any real option if I want the contracted speed... Many ISPs today implement TR-069 (a standard of

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] router woes

2017-03-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 22:52:25 -0700, Jorge Almeida wrote: > PS. I still would like to know what people in this list think about > having an ISP managed device as router, re security. Not that I have > any real option if I want the contracted speed... It's more a privacy issue that security for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] router woes

2017-03-28 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 9:10 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 03/28/2017 01:19 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> The point is: I connected the computers to the lan ports of my >> secondary router (with original firmware, but I intended to install >> ddwrt), and the setup works, except

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] router woes

2017-03-28 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/28/2017 01:19 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > The point is: I connected the computers to the lan ports of my > secondary router (with original firmware, but I intended to install > ddwrt), and the setup works, except that the speed never reaches > 100Mbps. This is not unusual, the speeds they

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] router woes

2017-03-28 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 28 Mar 2017 23:00:12 Alarig Le Lay wrote: > On mar. 28 mars 21:19:29 2017, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > Which part is to blame? The secondary router boasts 1300Mbps on 5GHz > > WiFi, so I assumed it could deal with 150Mbps on cat5e ethernet cable. > > The power consumption is about 4.5w,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] router woes

2017-03-28 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On mar. 28 mars 21:19:29 2017, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Which part is to blame? The secondary router boasts 1300Mbps on 5GHz > WiFi, so I assumed it could deal with 150Mbps on cat5e ethernet cable. > The power consumption is about 4.5w, which seems a bit flimsy. > Or maybe the primary router is

[gentoo-user] [OT] router woes

2017-03-28 Thread Jorge Almeida
I have net by cable with nominal speed 200Mbps. The ISP provides a modem/router Netgear (from Numericable). I disabled the WiFi and I have 2 computers connected via ethernet to the router. The speed is about 156Mbps (measured by http://www.speedtest.net), which seems to be what to expect. Now,