Re: DSL router and security

2000-02-11 Thread Alexander Hvostov
Howard, Oh dear. Please tell us what ISP this is so we can take special care to avoid it. :) (Note: NAT breaks all sorts of things, and it is incredibly cheap for an ISP to use NAT, since they, as an ISP, /should/ be able to afford the IP address space.) Regards, Alex. -BEGIN GEEK CODE

Re: DSL router and security

2000-02-11 Thread Peter Cordes
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 01:22:19PM +, Howard Mann wrote: Hi, I use DSL with Slink. I previously had a static IP address. I used an IP Chains ruleset as one security level. All was well. My ISP recently mandated a configuration change for the Cisco DSL router from bridging to ppp

DSL router and security

2000-02-10 Thread Howard Mann
Hi, I use DSL with Slink. I previously had a static IP address. I used an IP Chains ruleset as one security level. All was well. My ISP recently mandated a configuration change for the Cisco DSL router from bridging to ppp mode, including NAT at the router level. The router now changes my