On Monday 05 April 2010, Michael Miles wrote: >On 04/04/2010 07:41 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Sunday 04 April 2010, Michael Miles wrote: >>> On 04/04/2010 12:32 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote: >>>> On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 03:26:52PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >>>>> I see no benefit to a hardware router vs. running Linux with the >>>>> firewall configured. >>>> >>>> Well, yes, there is. Two different platforms, different firewalls, >>>> mean that no single attack vector can be used on both of them. >>>> >>>> I wouldn't recommend the BEFSR41 line, though. Get a WRT54G/WRT54GL >>>> and load either Tomato or DD-WRT. Much more capable than the native >>>> firmware, and free to boot. (Or to run...joke...) >>>> >>>>> There are good, free, firewall packages you can run on a cheap >>>>> machine. >>>> >>>> That's effectively what you're doing with the free firmware on >>>> commercial firewalls, without the need to maintain another full OS and >>>> usually in a very much smaller physical package. >>>> >>>> $0.02, YMMV, etc. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> -- >>>> Dave Ihnat >>>> dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx >>> >>> I have found that yes it is quite old >>> >>> I am about to flash the firmware to the latest befsr-v1.46.02_FW_code >>> >>> its a bin file and from what I understand under linux I am to use tftp >>> to do this >>> >>> tftp 192.168.1.1 >>> mode binary >>> put CODE.BIN >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> I am just trying to figure it out before I go ahead >>> >>> Michael >> >> Please check the serial number and version of your befsr-41 on their web >> site before doing that, I understand that stuffing too new a FW into an >> older one will brick it. I know of at least 3 versions of it. > >So I should step it up by flashing all sequential updates? > I have never done that myself. But there are warnings, or were, on the linksys download site, saying you can't put a version 3 image in a version 2 unit. I wasn't trying to scare you, just make sure you did your homework. ;-) I have one of those units, but it hasn't been plugged in in a couple of years as I switched to DD-WRT on a clapped out k6 box with everything non- essential stripped. Not even a hard drive or a floppy. It boots from a cf card on the end of an ide cable. I used gftp to update mine several times though, it Just Worked(TM). And so far, no one I didn't give the password to has gotten to it, or any of the machines behind it. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience. -- Albert Einstein -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
