-----Original Message----- From: Markus Kohli [mailto:kohli@dplanet.ch] Sent: 2001 m. birželio 7 d. 22:35 To: suse-security@suse.com Subject: [suse-security] Ethernet Gateway from 3Com Hi people! Maybe this is off-topic, but it's although very much security relates, so I ask this anyway... Does anybody of you have any experiences with the Ethernet Gateway 3C510 from 3Com? It has 4 RJ45 ports, a printer-server (windows) and so on... They say, it has a firewall built-in, and it is easy to configure. Would this be the solution to my problem of wanting to connect 3 pc's (actually 2 desk and 1 lap) to a cable-modem? An important point is, that the modem remembers the MAC-Adress of a network device, it is connected to, so if I wanna change PC, I have to reset the modem :( Any help would be greatly appreciated _______________________________________ Hello Markus, Yes, this kind of products is very simple to manage and what's most important - they are very quite! Of course Linux or FreeBSD box gives some extra features (DNS cache and other...), but... As of MAC Address, I think that some boxes (i.e.., SMC Barricade) has feature to copy your MAC address from your current network device to WAN port. So, I think you do not need reset modem ;-) Audrius Verseckas