On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 13:14 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote: > The hardware router does all the talking to ADSL, and Fedora or other > non-Windows operating systems can use a standard Ethernet connection. > The router will do NAT (allowing multiple computers to access the > Internet at the same time, while only needing one "real" IP address), > and act as a basic firewall. Be aware that unless the box is *meant* to act as a firewall, it may not be any good to you as one. Just because it's doing NAT doesn't mean that you can't get outside connections coming through. I've seen a Billion ADSL modem/router that has passed unexpected outside connections through to the network. It seems that some of these devices try to be a little too helpful to some things that NAT gets in the way of. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
