On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 08:55:52PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Don't have any ports open that you don't need, avoid DROP (use DENY), > leave yourself pingable. If you don't need to be running a service, > don't do it.
There are viable reasons to use DROP vs DENY. Likewise, there are good reasons not to respond to ping requests. > Do not buy a cable modem off Ebay under any circumstances. These > things are brutally easy to fry with line surge off the cable line, > especially if you're in a lightning prone area. (snip) > you're better off leasing a modem from them. Agreed, I went through 3 cable-modems during the two years I had service recently. In each case, the modem just stopped responding. They plugged a new one in and everything worked fine. Had I purchased my own modem I would have been SOL and needed to purchase a new one. However, since I leased it from them (for a very small fee), they had to provide a replacement. -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
