[luau] Re: Configuring Router

[Dan George]

I would follow MonMothas advise for setting up a firewall with a Linux
router to keep out unwanted sniffers.

On Wednesday 24 July 2002 19:43, you wrote:
> I switched to DSL so I wouldn't have to deal with this stuff.  Sandi and I
> run our our mail and web server for personal use and it would suck to have
> RR shut us down and not get e-mail until I got a new provider!
>
> Dusty
>
> > I dont know if anyone here on a RR cable modem has ever had their
> > packet sampled by RR.  They check how much traffic your receiving and
> > when they figure your setting up a server at home they do two things:
> > 1. Contact you for an explaination.  The fact your downloading a lot of
> >    graphics files doesnt cut it anymore because they know...
> > 2. Cutdown your bandwidth to a miserable point where you have to
> >     discontinue running a server. I know this from experience with
> >     just trying to setup a W2K Adv FTP server for practice only.
> > 3. Cutoff your account completely and put you on a list of violators.
> >    You will have to use your wifes name and new address before
> >    you can reconnect to RR.  This news came from a FLEX guy.
> >
> > On Wednesday 24 July 2002 09:49, you wrote:
> >> >Message: 1
> >>
> >> From: Dan George <linuxdan at hawaii.rr.com>
> >>
> >> >Interesting. So you can actually run a server at home without being
> >> > detected by RR.  Would like to know more details on that one.
> >>
> >> The USB-USB networking is available in the lastest 2.4 kernel
> >> (2.4.18). You need to build a new kernel with the feature in by
> >> selecting
> >> experimental in 'Code Maturity Options' from make menuconfig.
> >> This will make 'USB-USB Networking cable device support' appear
> >> in the USB section.
> >>
> >> Your USB port then becomes usable as /dev/eth1.
> >>
> >> Of course, this by itself doesn't give you firewalling/masquerading
> >> capability
> >> that makes your internal LAN undetectable by RR.  But it does give you
> >> 2 network ports (one internal & one external).
> >>
> >> Then it's a matter of installing iptables and using MonMotha's scripts
> >> to do masquerading. See:
> >>
> >>  http://www.mplug.org/phpwiki/index.php/MonMothaReferenceGuide
> >>
> >> Tim Burgess
> >>
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