Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/08/2009 05:29 AM, Dale wrote: >> I had thought about picking up a Linksys router and putting it between >> my desktop and the modem. > > Your modem is probably a router anyway. > > >> I also plan to change my root password. Of course, my password >> isn't as bad as some I have seen. May need to disable any type of >> remote access too. > > root login is disabled by default. Even if someone knew the password, > login is impossible :) > > Furthermore, right now you're accessing the internet without any form > of protection anyway. If you're with dial-up, that means you're > connected directly to the internet. And don't forget this is Linux, > not Windows. Even without a firewall, remote break-in is highly > improbable, especially since you're not running any Apache or MySQL > servers on your machine (at least I assume you don't.) > > >
This is all good to know. I would rather not have a router right now since I don't want to spend the money for one. If it is not needed, I'll pass on that. Good to know that remote logins are not allowed for root at least. I don't think I have done anything to allow user logins either. I don't have ssh running since I have only one rig running right now. I'm also not running Apache or anything on here. Just a desktop rig. It sounds like from what people are writing, all I have to do is enable dhcp for my ethernet, hook up the modem, go to the URL to access the modem/router then setup user name and password. This is sort of what I recall doing a long time ago. I guess not much has changed. I just synced and ran emerge -uvDNa world. I think I am going to wait. 142,529 kB over a 24K connection would take about 15 hours. I think DSL would be faster. Heck, may be faster to wait anyway. LOL Dale :-) :-)
