RE: MicroFirewalls for home/low speed connections

["Kurt Buff" <kurtbuff () lightmail com>]

Well, yes, but...

Try finding an ISP (including USWest) that provides their DSL service in
anything but bridged mode, which negates all of the advantages you cite.
USWest does sometimes provide it in a routed flavor, but even so, it's like
trying to pull teeth to get static IP addresses. You have to go to a
commercial/business rate to get them, which most folks just aren't willing
to do.

feh.

| -----Original Message-----
| From: owner-firewall-wizards () lists nfr net
| [mailto:owner-firewall-wizards () lists nfr net]On Behalf Of Aaron C.
| Springer
| Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 18:34
| To: Nicholas Tang
| Cc: firewall-wizards () nfr net; chuck
| Subject: Re: MicroFirewalls for home/low speed connections
|
|
| Us West uses a cisco dsl router that has filtering, NAT and
| other real router
| features.
|
| acs
|
| On 19-Nov-99 Nicholas Tang wrote:
| > On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, chuck wrote:
| >
| >> Why can't the DSL routers ("modems") have this built in?  Even
| >> just basic filtering?
| >
| > I just got a DSL line set up at home, and the Netopia 7100
| router I'm
| > using does support port filtering.  I haven't played with
| it much and I
| > can't vouch for it in any way, shape, or form, but many DSL
| providers use
| > the Netopia box.  Now, configuring that filtering looks
| like it's beyond
| > any "normal" home user, but the option is there.
| >
| > Nicholas
| >
| >
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