[Nottingham] setting up firewall for broadband

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NTL do not register Mac Adresses now :)


On Monday 14 Oct 2002 7:04 pm, Lee wrote:
> Hmm, I'd avoid usb if possible, and go for an cable modem with an
> ethernet port. I had to reprogram my mac address on my linux firewall's
> network card,
> just because I could'nt face anymore time on NTL 'hold' to get it
> changed (and then for the guy/girl/thing at the other end to type my mac
> address wrong), but it rather trivial operation. But apart from that it
> was fairly painless with smoothwall, and I've had good result, I've had
> good results with IPcop too..... not checked out astro security linux,
> too many distro's so little time :-).
>
> You can get usb working, if you really really want, but you may want to
> have real fun later, like sticking dedicated IDS system on the outside
> of your firewall for instance, I'm not heard of any passive usb sniffers
> ;-)..... ;-)....
> ..
>
> Laters,
> Lee
> (snort,snort, chortle, chortle)
>
> On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 00:25, Godfrey Nix wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Finally I am getting a broadband connection from NTL (next week). But I
> > need some advice on setting up a firewall. I have built a machine with
> > ethernet for my LAN, and USB for the broadband (that is what I am told is
> > their preferred connection). But I find my copy of SmoothWall 0.9.5LF
> > from a coverdisk does not support USB devices, unly a serial dial-up
> > modem. That is no use on broadband.
> >
> > Is there some other Firewall I can use on the machine (486, 32Mb with
> > 460Mb disk) or can I get SmoothWall to work with USB? How do I configure
> > the USB for the cable modem?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Godfrey
> >
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