From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Alex Davis <alex14641@yahoo.com>,
netfilter@lists.netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Firewall question
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 05:43:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200606090543.24401.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060608192628.GA561@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
> Well the DSL modem only transfers whatever data the ISP end sends to it,
> which in your case is just PPP packets (LCC or LCP I think). No one out
> on the internet
No one out on the internet, but it would be trivial for someone outside
his house. All his traffic will be on a long unsecured cable.
That is why I would never bridge home ethernet traffic onto a DSL line.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-09 3:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-08 18:57 Firewall question Alex Davis
2006-06-08 19:26 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-06-09 3:43 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-06-09 13:12 ` Lennart Sorensen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-30 0:59 V. A.H.
2004-03-30 7:56 ` Antony Stone
2004-03-30 9:34 ` V. A.H.
2004-03-30 9:58 ` Antony Stone
2004-03-30 15:53 ` V. A.H.
[not found] <FLEKIPPLAEDMJMOOBBDPCENHDAAA.stewart.thompson@shaw.ca>
2002-10-02 7:38 ` Firewall Question mourik jan c heupink
[not found] <OFF1D98D30.294C7699-ON05256C46.0003F290@int.tp.com.pe>
2002-10-02 0:55 ` Bishop
2002-10-01 22:50 transfer Bytes Counting Stewart Thompson
2002-10-02 0:04 ` Firewall Question Bishop
2002-10-02 1:26 ` Stewart Thompson
2002-10-02 15:48 ` Rowan Reid
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