Hi Duncan,
On Monday 28 June 2010 21:50:10 DSinc wrote:
Gaffer,
My replies are inline............
TNX, anyway.
On 06/28/2010 15:45, Gaffer wrote:
On Monday 28 June 2010 18:54:39 DSinc wrote:
I still use xDSL. Soon I will move to FIOS. Well, as I get
smarter and answer my ?many? questions (another thread in play!)
I am beginning (again) to have trouble with my xDSL connection.
I suspect someone local (or ?) keeps camping out on my assigned
IP addy from my ISP so that they can just dick with my xDSL
modem or my Router.
I know I have my xDSL modem set to a "bridge" mode. I suspect
this makes it a straight wire connection to my Router's WAN
port.
I would never use "Bridge Mode" unless I was feeding a box that
was specifically setup to be a firewall, something like "IP Cop".
Should I NOT use "bridge mode" in my TELCO-supplied modem I would
be Double Nat-ng and have 2 firewalls.
If you are using your router in bridge mode then it is not doing
NAT or firewalling. Just because Wins has what it calls a firewall
has nothing to do with NAT.
I view this as excess overhead.
Perhaps my bad.
My router does both NAT and supports its' own firewall and SPI.
Both of these selections have been activated since day one!
You can't have it both ways ! If you have the router firewall
switched on and NAT switched on its not in "Bridge Mode"
I think I have my Router as |strong| as I currently comprehend
its' directions.
Your router is not being used as anything but a modem. Its most
valuable assets are being thrown away by it being configured as
it is.
Can you please share some more logic to this? I believe that my
Router is my single point of 1st protection to Inbound stuff. Or,
perhaps you and I are "wired" differently. This comment I do not
understand.
I doubt that we are "wired" differently. :-)
But you are right, the router should be the 1st point of
protection. If you really have "Bridge Mode" turned on, then its
simply a modem without offering any protection. All "Bridge Mode"
does is pass on the IP address that the ISP assigns to your
connection.
Turns out, I have to save Router logs and reboot the Router
about every 3-7 days to recover a semi-firm connection. The
Router is a DLink DGL-4300. All wireless is disabled. I use
wired LAN only.
I use a Dlink router. I have mine set to firewall and NAT. The
firewall blocks all unrequested incoming traffic and lets
everything out. NAT allows me to use a range of IP addresses
that are not Internet routeable effectively allowing the use of
several machines from the single IP that my ISP assigns me.
Which incidentally changes each time I restart the router.
OK. Understand this logic. Same-same. That's how life is here too.
The problem is I have to re-boot the Router several times a day!
This is a totally different issue !
This could simply be a noisy incoming line providing a weak noisy
signal. In fact a weak noisy signal to the router could be
anywhere between the CO and the router.
Or it could be that the router is dieing. I've replaced my router
several times because its performance has become degraded, probably
due to high voltage transients on the telephone line feeding it.
I've also had the spark gaps replaced because they have been
damaged during thunder storms.
Is this possible? Do not know why someone local chooses to pick
on me? I will suppose giggles and laughs for the present!
This is the same view to me as past electrical storm
interference I had with an older (retired) xdsl modem.
The more I read your post, the more I'm inclined to think that the
router could be suspect and the electrical storm interference you
refer to could be the reason.
Its quite possible that you have a tracking beacon installed on
your machine that reports your machines presence on the Internet.
In all probability you wouldn't know if you had.
Please share more about "tracking beacon's?" I will go do a
search/destroy on them as necessary. I have yet to find one/any
yet!
OK ! how about the ones that you installed as part of installing
the driver for a piece of hardware...
Yes, I do NOT KNOW that I might already have an internal
"baddie" in play; other than every scanner I have used comes up
negative.
What makes you think a scanner will find and report every
"baddie" that you might have on your machine.
Oh, I do not. I use what I use. I then use what is suggested to me
by my betters. And, most of the time, I do find a hint from this
List! I have both patience and trust in this List. This anomaly is
just another matter of time at best. At worst, I do so hope the
miscreant will eventually burn in hell!
Thought? Suggestions? Ideas?
Best,
Duncan
Wireshark is good...
