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Post #43,150
by SpiceWare
6/21/02 4:15:15 PM
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New I like my Linksys setup
I've got a Linksys cable modem router that does the firewall. I have the [link|http://www.linksys.com/Products/product.asp?grid=23&prid=173|4 port w/wireless] version which ran me $300 last year. It's down to $150 now.

If he's not interested in wireless he could use the [link|http://www.linksys.com/Products/product.asp?prid=142&grid=23|1 port] version by plugging it into his existing hub/switch. It can be found for $60.

My house is fully wired but I picked up the wireless version because of friends who bring their laptops on visits. I replaced my laptop's NIC with a wireless one and would never go back.

Darrell Spice, Jr.

[link|http://home.houston.rr.com/spiceware/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #43,155
by bepatient
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6/21/02 6:55:24 PM
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New Also wireless..
...but not at the router. I have the cable modem into a ppro 200 acting as firewall/webserver.

Script is simple. Block everything.

Cable modem provider looks for specific open ports...80 is not one of them...the ones @home and now comcast hit are 67, 68 and 119.

I have the firewall set to reject all packets...though portsentry shows the ports as listening on a portscan.

There are almost no services besides httpd running on the box.

You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson

[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
Post #43,182
by ben_tilly
6/22/02 12:28:32 AM
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New Reminds me of an iBook - linksys irritation
I bought a linksys that is not wireless. I already had an airport, and so the feature was not worth anything to me.

However my iBook finds it. But I can't use it because it is password protected and I don't know the password.

Unfortunately the linksys comes up before the airport in the iBook, and the standard iBook wizard to configure your wireless couldn't be told to ignore it. Oh, there was a dropdown for it, but no matter what you put there, the next step went to the first in the list. :-(

I eventually found a more manual way to configure the network, and it isn't a problem now. But it was irritating at the time when I couldn't configure the laptop because I could not get it talking to the airport, and failing that could not get it accepted by the linksys...

Cheers,
Ben
"... I couldn't see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything."
--Richard Feynman
     Trying to help a cow-orker secure his home network - (drewk) - (11) - June 21, 2002, 12:45:10 PM EDT
         Cow-orker? - (jbrabeck) - (5) - June 21, 2002, 01:05:29 PM EDT
             OT: cow-orker. - (static) - (4) - June 21, 2002, 11:07:59 PM EDT
                 And I though it was some one practicing animal husbandry. :) -NT - (a6l6e6x) - June 22, 2002, 10:25:06 PM EDT
                 Weren't the winning one... - (Yendor) - (1) - June 24, 2002, 04:01:59 PM EDT
                     Both. - (static) - June 25, 2002, 12:07:21 AM EDT
                 Those of us with cuth would never stoop - (Ashton) - June 24, 2002, 06:52:55 PM EDT
         Consider InJoy Firewall. - (Another Scott) - June 21, 2002, 01:06:40 PM EDT
         I like my Linksys setup - (SpiceWare) - (2) - June 21, 2002, 04:15:15 PM EDT
             Also wireless.. - (bepatient) - June 21, 2002, 06:55:24 PM EDT
             Reminds me of an iBook - linksys irritation - (ben_tilly) - June 22, 2002, 12:28:32 AM EDT
         Smoothwall - (Steve Lowe) - June 22, 2002, 12:06:44 AM EDT

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