On 09/15/2010 11:36 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 09/09/2010 12:43 PM, John E. Perry wrote:
So what? I've never run across a router that wasn't also a pretty decent firewall. My present Netgear Wifi router makes me invisible to the public Internet, and that's the way I like it. Using WPA/PSK makes me close enough to safe from wardrivers for my purposes.
I live in Nac.... I'm am invisible to ALL wardrivers :p
All reasonably recent cable/dsl routers do a darn good job of firewalling and giving you reasonable flexibility with port-choice and port-forwarding. For every service I want to offer, I have to punch a hole in the router to let traffic in (open a port and fwd it to a box that handles the service on that port) I don't see how this will change with IPV6. The issue will be whether the router is smart enough to handle/route IPV6 and if so -- no issue -- if not => new router. (looking at my old Linksys WRT54G, it looks like I'll have to swap that with my Trendnet 633GR and pray it does IPV6 work over the WAN -- bummer.
Whew, the 633 will work: The TEW-633GR employs a VSC7385 Gigabit Ethernet switch made by VITESSE. This SparX series chip is recommended for use in high-performance SOHO solutions. The chip offers 5 ports, has a 112KB frame buffer, supports IPv4 and IPv6 networks (with Jumbo Frames), and features integrated tools for QoS and other services. Having an integrated processor, it can even work as a router in its own right, but this capability is not utilized in the TEW-633GR. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org