[SunRescue] RE: Why I am *quite* fond of my Linksys router...

[Ken Hansen]

Fellows, fellows - you simply redirect your interested ports
(telnet/FTP/WWW/etc) to a machine *inside* your network, or you define a DMZ
host that is wide open on all ports.

The Linksys lets me hang my SS/5-110 machine out for all to attack (right
now a wide-open RH Linux machine, haven't invested any time to secure it) -
it is at n2vip.dyndns.org.

That is my server, sitting on the internet as my DMZ machine. I will
eventually use port filtering to limit access, but for now, what the hey -
if anyone wants to crash it, all I lose is my current SETI at Home packet ;^)

Yes, you could hang your *robust* IPX off it and get all those other
services you already have set up. Really, these are nice boxes... Take a
look at the manuals, they are quite capable...

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sebastian Marius Kirsch" <skirsch at moebius.inka.de>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] RE: Why I am *quite* fond of my Linksys router...


> On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 07:04:50PM -0400, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> > From: "James Sharp" <jsharp at psychoses.org>
> > > Router, caching name server, squid web cache, and NAT to hide those
ever
> > > secure Windows machines....all in one cute little off white box.
>
> Plus FTP and HTTP server, ssh daemon (so I can log in from wherever I am
> to read my mails), DHCP server, tftp server etc. (At the moment, it's
> the only box that's running all the time.)
>
> > I sure do think a spiffy little IPX or LX is cute :)
>
> Yeah, but as I said, the IPX doesn't quite cut it. And I don't know
> whether an LX would be that much faster.
>
> But an SS670 with SM51 would definitely be a good idea ... ;-)
>
> --
> Yours, Sebastian Kirsch <skirsch at moebius.inka.de>
>
> You know you've been hacking too long when you end your sentences with
> semicolons instead of full stops.
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