I have always ran my own router behind the ISP's firewall/modem. I usually DMZ my personal router's ip address and then rely on the security of my own newer router that I have full control of. I also forward ports to my server so that it can provide my public ip services via the router I have supplied. I also always turn off the wifi on the vendor's device (or if possible don't get wifi on the vendor's device at all if that is an option). George: switches will forward just about any underlying packets at the layer 2 level, they don't care about protocols at all, and generally it takes an expensive switch to even look at protocols. But it is possible that the new switch does not support 10base-t and the set top boxes may need something ancient like that. On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 10:01 AM George N. White III <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Dec 2021 at 01:06, Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Sat, 2021-12-25 at 12:19 -0500, Mauricio Tavares wrote: >> > The joy of IoT: devices that are treated as appliances: never >> > get patched and are updated by being tossed and replaced with one >> > with newer vulnerabilities. >> >> And house lighting that's out of your control when the remote server >> controlling it goes down... > > > I have fibre TV and internet service. The fibre modem has a battery, but > if the power is out for longer than 20 minutes, the set-top boxes try to > reconnect and fail before the modem comes back. At work I had problems > with a computer room A/C that was installed without the proper delay relay > needed to prevent tripping the breaker (located in a locked closet). I > suppose we will need a whole house systemd to ensure all the circuits come > up in the proper sequence. > >> >> My ISP supplied my modem/router years ago, then sent me a new one >> recently. It was worse than the old one. I don't know if it's any >> better or worse security-wise, but operationally speaking it's a >> disaster. > > > My switch died this year. I was using it for computers, access points, and > the set-top boxes. The set-top boxes wouldn't talk to the replacement > switch (I assume they use some non-IP ethernet protocol the new > switch doesn't support). Fortunately it was easy to move the cables > feeding the set-top boxes to my ISP supplied modem/router. > > -- > George N. White III > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
