On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 15:31, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:10:45PM -0600, Langer, Christian wrote: > > > Are there any national isps that are friendly to linux? > > Perhaps a more critical question is are there > Home Firewall Friendly ISPs out there. > > If you call and ask about a small Cisco, Netgear, .... > Firewall/ NAT box do they give you any good answers. > About the only issue I have seen that affects using a NAT/router/firewall is when the ISP registers the MAC address of the devices used on the connection. And most of the simple NAT/router/firewalls have a fix for this, you can assign the MAC address the NAT/router/firewall uses. I used this trick recently for a user in Louisville using a netgear device. Worked great. As such it is not really worth the time to ask the ISP if they would help installing such a device. > IMO, It is near criminal to connect WindowZ directly to the internet. > The same may be true of any OS depending on the current state of bugs > and exploits. > Agreed! :) -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx You will engage in a profitable business activity.
