On 01/06/2011 02:46 PM, Philipp Thomas wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 21:19:36 +0100 (CET), "Carlos E. R."
wrote: I do, it is on, but it only protects the computer. There are devices connected to the router without their own firewall: the printer, the digital TV recorder...
Get a router that supports alternative firmwares like DDWRT and run the lfirewall on it.
Philipp
But Getting a new router was an expense Carlos was looking to avoid. To me, the easiest thing seems to be to do this with a Linux machine as the only thing attached to the ISP. Its not that much more expensive than running a router, presuming you HAVE an old machine laying around (which I suspect most of us do). Running Headless, the power consumption is miniscule, its just as easy to configure as a router, and easier to keep up to date. That way during the next year or two of flux in the ipv4/ipv6 arena, you will be able to roll with the punches delivered by your ISP, adopt ipv6 well ahead of them if you wish, and use the linux box to do your tunneling. I do this now, and run linux as my gateway/router. My WiFi is relagated to merely an Access Point to my LAN. It doesn't even do dhcp. -- Explain again the part about rm -rf / -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org