Its superb but theres a few hitches Linux wise.. 1) You can only register using a windows box and IE5/5.5 and no firewall running! Once up and running turn off the modem for an hour or two and then you can DHCP on using Linux but make sure your firewalls tight and you passwords are shadowed - I left mine unsecure to see what happened and got hacked pretty quickly one an attempted takeover and once sendmail was so busy I had to cold boot! 2) I get 1.5M UDP (mainly who-has) on my port per week so watch out what you do with a tcpdump output on a small router. 3) I had to have the engineers round 3 times to get it sorted properly.
Warning: With 600k you can browse everything useful in about a week! And those nasty sites with splash screens everywhere can download too fast for you to stop them so be ready to CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE Tom
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On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 08:49:27AM +0000, tom potts wrote:
Warning: With 600k you can browse everything useful in about a week! And those nasty sites with splash screens everywhere can download too fast for you to stop them so be ready to CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE
<plug> One reason I love Galeon is because you can set it to open new windows in tabs. I don't even notice popu{p,nder}s until I close the tab I'm reading. It has some other neat features like not downloading pix from certain servers and only repeating GIFs once too. </plug>
Alexis
A good point that about UDP. don't forget to block *all* UDP input except for named/bind. There *are* UDP exploits for Linux out there.
On 07-Jan-2003 tom potts wrote:
Its superb but theres a few hitches Linux wise..
- You can only register using a windows box and
IE5/5.5 and no firewall running! Once up and running turn off the modem for an hour or two and then you can DHCP on using Linux but make sure your firewalls tight and you passwords are shadowed - I left mine unsecure to see what happened and got hacked pretty quickly one an attempted takeover and once sendmail was so busy I had to cold boot! 2) I get 1.5M UDP (mainly who-has) on my port per week so watch out what you do with a tcpdump output on a small router. 3) I had to have the engineers round 3 times to get it sorted properly.
Warning: With 600k you can browse everything useful in about a week! And those nasty sites with splash screens everywhere can download too fast for you to stop them so be ready to CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE Tom
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I ended up having an IPCOP server (i.e. a skip PC) with NTL, and it works fine. Lovely stuff! Simple too. :) (We have 5 computers sitting behind it via a hub)
raph@panache.demon.co.uk writes:
A good point that about UDP. don't forget to block *all* UDP input except for named/bind.
Better advice would be to first determine what UDP services you are actually using. You might want NTP as well, for instance.
Yes, I use NTP, but not many do.
I reckon that if you are bright enough to use NTP you are bright enough to expand on my advice.
On 10-Jan-2003 Richard Kettlewell wrote:
raph@panache.demon.co.uk writes:
A good point that about UDP. don't forget to block *all* UDP input except for named/bind.
Better advice would be to first determine what UDP services you are actually using. You might want NTP as well, for instance.
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 08:49:27AM +0000, tom potts wrote:
- I get 1.5M UDP (mainly who-has) on my port per week
so watch out what you do with a tcpdump output on a small router.
who-has is ARP, not UDP. There does seem to be a lot of it on the network though - for those of you with STBs you can plug into the ethernet port even if you haven't signed up for a cable modem and see loads of ARP traffic.
J.
Just got NTL broadband installed here - Configured a second NIC for DCHP, plugged in the modem and could ping the world straight away. Couldn't access any web pages, so resorted to phoning Tech support. Tip - Tell 'em you've got a Mac running Darwin OS and a damaged CD. After a bit of an argument with the 'erb at the other end, found out I needed to do an online registration. The IP address to do this is 62.253.162.131 - Now with full access at 600K and no IE5.x used.
Regards, Paul.
On Tuesday 07 Jan 2003 8:49 am, tom potts wrote:
Its superb but theres a few hitches Linux wise..
- You can only register using a windows box and
IE5/5.5 and no firewall running! Once up and running turn off the modem for an hour or two and then you can DHCP on using Linux
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