> On 2020-12-03 19:40, home user wrote:
>
>
> Yellow? Is that safe? (Joke.)
I could use a good laugh these days. I 'm missing the joke. Please explain it.
> 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?
It's a phone modem. It connects my workstation and my land-line phone to comcast. That's all I know.
> Eg if you've ever logged-in to it, does it have firewall-ish functions?
No. I don't think so, but I'm not certain.
> Do you know the model-number of the modem?
Here's what I have on it:
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Arris Model: TM822G
P/N: TM02DHD822
SN: D4GBRE77E219673
EMAC: 5C571A713DD6
CMAC: 5C571A713DD7
MTA MAC: 5C571A713DD8
TM822G/NA-8
790635
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Bill.
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