[Glastonbury] Firewall and Cable

[Maurice Onmaplate]

> Think slightly differently :)  USB can be hard to
> set up under Linux.

I've SuSe not the latest but fairly recent, does that
make a differance?

> If you have the choice of an ethernet interface use
> it if only because
> the distance between your phone socket/cable modem
> and PC can then be 
> greater / cable is cheaper.

This should not be an issue, under 5 feet.

> 
> Alternatively, think of the following e.g. bastion
> host topology using 
> USB.
> 
> [USB] --> to ADSL/cable modem.  Probably DHCP with
> PPPoE (PPP over
> Ethernet).

This is all provided by Cable Company, I'd think?

> 
> [card0] --> to "untrusted, open to outside world"
> web server etc. - a 
> DMZ -- 10.0.0.1.  Throw a cheap PC on the end of
DMZ ? DeMilitarized Zone??

> this to serve your
> web pages / anonymous FTP / CVS etc. to the rest of
> the world.

I have no web pages held locally - all held on hosts,
I'm not sure I ever need anonymous FTP and what is
CVS?  Can't be CV's?

> 
> [card1] --> to private network(s) -- 192.168.1.0 --
> NAT'ed with private
> DNS.  The gateway machine for your other machines.

NAT'ed?  Networked?

> 
> HTH,
> 
> Andy

Thanks, I still feel like it's all a foriegn language.
 I suppose you Linux chaps like to hide machine ID's
as protection from any sort of intrusion?
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