On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 07:28, James Knott wrote:
Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Fri June 24 2005 9:28 pm, James Knott wrote:
My firewall consists of SuSE 9.1, running on an old Dell computer. Works fine. well, my son is running XP, but he did have the Sygate Personal Firewall setup.He HAD a router installed, but his ISP was charging $25 a month extra for another PC, so he toook it down. I'm trying to get him to run Linux!!!
$25 extra per month for a firewall/router???? That's nuts!!! What he should have done, is cloned the computer's MAC address into the router, so that it appears to the ISP as the same computer. He'll have a similar issue with a Linux based firewall, unless he moves the original NIC to the firewall or copies the MAC address.
Second PC I believe, not necessarily the router. I'm not surprised at an extra charge for another PC, assuming that it's using another of the ISP's AP addresses. This is why I went to a router\switch, one connection, one bandwidth cost, one IP address when in use.