On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 04:55:16AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What if I choose to just connect my machines to a hub hooked up to the cable | modem? How would I configure them to access the internet then?
One of the problems that arise with this sort of configuration is that your ISP will get all sorts of packets sent to it that are only intended to stay within your network. Hubs are just repeaters anyways and copy all incoming packets to all outgoing links. I don't think either you or your ISP want to be sending all those packets out on your cable modem. Just think, too, if someone else on your cable subnet has a packet sniffer running. I just got a DSL connection (last night) and my firewall logged a bunch of DENYed packets on port 138 (Netbios datagram service) from another IP in my DSL subnet. Somebody messed up <smirk>. BTW I apache is logging a whole bunch of Code Red requests already! Now I want to check the firewall logs on my dial-up gateway and see if that got attacked too. -D
