On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 16:13 +0530, Baishampayan Ghose wrote: > >> Why so? > > > > in the first place, these are setup by the 'technical' staff of the > > service provider. The root password is usually root123, the firewall > is > > identical on all modems, the permissions are the widest possible and > the > > client machines are usually windows. I use this, but my machines are > all > > linux with proper firewalls, and I can see the sort of rubbish the > > router lets in in the logs. > > True, but I am not sure how this is related to running the DHCP server > on the router.
ok if you configure the server on the router yourself, replace the root password and configure the firewall there also (after all most routers run linux, so no big deal - anyway this is getting highly OT. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
