Can you give me an example of a good hardware firewall, and why are software firewalls inadequate? Forrest On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 08:17:59 -0800, a large badger frolicked about on your keyboard, and out came:
On Saturday 09 November 2002 21:52, Ole Kofoed Hansen wrote:
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Forrest Halford wrote:
I just got attbi installed and want to make suse linux work. Can anyone help?
I have a cable modem through attbi and it pretty much just works. However, I've got a router (SMC7004) between the cable modem and my computer(s). The only thing I've had to do is to set the host name on the router to the value that AT&T provides (something like A000000-A, where A represents some letter and 0 represents some digit). That and set all my computers to using DHCP. I definitely recommend getting a router with a good hardware firewall because someone (or some people) keeps trying to break into my network (from ip addresses like 12.235.??.?? mostly).
Steve
Please remember that the members of this list come from all over the world and may not know that attbi is short for AT&T Broadband Internet. I didn't, but google helped me. But it really shouldn't be required to search the net to find out what you are talking about, when you ask for help.
On the support pages, it looks like attbi is configured differently depending which region you are in, so if the hints below don't help you, we need more information.
Have you set up dhcp? If yes, does it give any error message? If no, do it.
Regards
Ole