On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 15:29:30 +0100, Anne Wilson <annew@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I see. So I need to find out whether my daughter's BT router (with a single > connection socket) contains a firewall or not. > > I would have preferred to get rid of it, but it seems to be tied in - they > don't allow you access to any settings whatsoever, as far as I can see, so > you can't just replace it with a standard router. It's nice to have a device you own (in two senses) separate from the equipment provided to you by your ISP. One is that for some definitions of fun, it is fun to set up traffic shaping on your device. You usually aren't supposed to muck with the ISP provided equipment and you need all traffic going through a single device to do this well. You can also have a firewall there in addition to that on each machine to mitigate the damage done if a machine is compromised. And you can keep your ISP from seeing your local traffic. (The FBI wants to be able to directly connect to routers in order to be able to see traffic that wouldn't normally be propagated to a place they could monitor without drawing attention. The project was called private doorbell. Cisco denied cooperating with that project way back when, but times change and I'm sure the wish is still there.) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
