On 2020-12-03 19:40, home user wrote:
I was asked about this system.
* comcast(my ISP) connected via metal wire cable to Arris phone modem
connected via ethernet cable (yellow) to the workstation tower port.
Yellow? Is that safe? (Joke.)
Sometimes what users think is just a "modem" also contains a small
router
and enough of a firewall to do NAT. Sometimes (as with my cable-tv
vendor
broadband in the UK) the user can, as I have, elect to use the "modem"
in
modem-only mode (which is to say I've turned off the router/firewall
part)
and use a separate router/firewall one step further into my network.
Do you have any idea if your "modem" is just-a-modem, or more than that?
Eg if you've ever logged-in to it, does it have firewall-ish functions?
Do you know the model-number of the modem?
--
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own
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