Linked by Jeremy LaCroix on Wed 13th Aug 2003 16:59 UTC
Privacy, Security, Encryption I am a "Technologist", a Technology enthusiast that is usually the one that is called should a major catastrophe strike an end user. My saga of computer rescues becomes a plot that is ever so thickening, if not only for the fact that's it's becoming incredibly easy for hackers and malicious code writers these days to invade personal property to find, seek, and destroy. Each year, virus and hacker threats increase, and in addition the damage trail left behind is something of a problem. Not to forget, a majority of "PC Panic" cases I've come across are often times the same common, "major" problem.
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D-Link HW Firewall
by John on Wed 13th Aug 2003 19:40 UTC

I have a D-Link hardware firewall and, if I remember correctly, all I had to do was fill in the blanks with the values from my xDSL provider and then set the MTU setting to 1492 (the ISP uses pppoe). I have since recommended this solution to a bunch of clients, faculty members and friends - and every one of them has been able to figure it out.

At $60 Canadian is there any reason NOT to have one of these?

(I also have an OpenBSD bridge set up between my home LAN and this box for paranoia's sake, but the D-Link is doing a great job)