[Sussex] Idea's and suggestions ?????

[Neil Ford]

On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 12:40  am, john wrote:

> Evening All,
>
> I'm currently using an Alcatel speedtouch usb modem to dual boot XP and
> mandrake 9.0.
>
[snip]

The simplest option is the ethernet modem/router route. Fully platform 
independent and most of them have fairly good built in firewalling 
which removes the need for setting one up on the PC.

In theory you should be able to get the Alcatel working under Linux, 
though how well it's supported under Mandrake I don't know. More 
experienced people need to chip in at this point.

Another option is to use the Alcatel in conjunction with a box running 
IPCop. This gives you a robust firewall and is a proven solution (Nik 
and Jon can confirm) but unless you have a suitable donor PC kicking 
around would most likely be considerably more expensive than the router 
option.

As for the firewall config, allow everything out and nothing in. PC 
will be able to do everything as normal (surfing, email, etc) but will 
not allow any connections originated from outside.

Hope that's helped.
Neil.