On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, you wrote: > In that case providing you saw my earlier post, > you will know that I was a victim of script kiddies > just this morning. > > Firewall time, off to read the howto's. I have been following cable post as it's coming to my area soon. Security is a big issue with it. Following quite a few messages on it in a different area it was suggested that a firewall will do little to protect you on a cable network. The cable connection is acting like a bridge in most cases. A bridge does not route packets, it passes packets from one interface to the other. Everyone is sharing all the traffic of all nodes. A router was suggested in between you and the cable provider from one post. A little elaborate for just a simple home network or computer user. I don't have cable and have little experience with networking. I'm just monitoring the messages on it to make a decision when the time comes if I want to travel down that road. There is a big security issue with it that most don't consider. Be interested in hearing from others on the subject to get some education on how best to handle it.
