From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: Firewall question Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 05:43:24 +0200 Message-ID: <200606090543.24401.ak@suse.de> References: <20060608185712.79340.qmail@web50207.mail.yahoo.com> <20060608192628.GA561@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Alex Davis , netfilter@lists.netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:40335 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932173AbWFIDq3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 23:46:29 -0400 To: Lennart Sorensen In-Reply-To: <20060608192628.GA561@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org > 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