Re: Hotel Internet?

2010-12-25 Thread Steven Kurylo
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Ryan Finnesey wrote: > Is anyone within the group providing Internet access to Hotels?  It > seems most of this market is controlled by Lodge Net. > We're running the wifi at our hotels on our own. We use wifidog for the software (with radius hooked into our rese

Re: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?

2011-01-12 Thread Steven Kurylo
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Jack Bates wrote: > > As my corp IT guy put it to me, PAT forces a routing disconnect between > internal and external. There is no way to reach the hosts without the > firewall performing it's NAT function. But that's not true. If you have NAT, without a firewall

Re: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?

2011-01-12 Thread Steven Kurylo
> There is a least one situation where NAT *does* provide a small amount of > necessary security. > > Try this at home, with/without NAT: > > 1. Buy a new PC with Windows installed > 2. Install all security patches needed since the OS was installed > > Without NAT, you're unpatched PC will get infe

Re: Random Port Blocking at Hotels (was: Re: quietly....)

2011-02-08 Thread Steven Kurylo
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Derek J. Balling wrote: > > On Feb 5, 2011, at 8:14 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: >> I have told a hotel they need to install equipment that supports RA >> guard as I've checked out.  This was a hotel that only offered IPv4. > > Wow... Could that be any more of a waste of