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Re: [PLUG] Verizon DSL - and online security
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I've been using roaring penguin for my Covad DSL
connection for several months and I agree with Fred,
it has been rock solid. In fact, it's better than
Covad's own "dialer" that I use on my Win partition :)
I do, however, share pinkee's concern about security.
I asked some people about it at a PLUG meeting the
other month and after I remarked that I don't have my
own firewall they said what I need to do is start
shutting down ports. Is there a HOWTO I should read,
or can someone at least give me a short list of good
shell commands to accomplish this?
Right now the only "security" I use is starting and
stopping roaring penguin every time I use the
internet. Since I am DHCP and am only on for an hour
or so at a time I think this is reasonable, but I
would like to take additional precautions almost as
much for the tutorial value as for anything else.
Some more comments about DSL: One thing I noticed is
that almost everyone using it is on Verizon these
days... do they already have a total monopoly in most
areas? I am extremely happy with Covad and I have
heard a lot of good things about SpeakEasy and DCAnet
as well on this list. It's just that Verizon
advertises more than anyone else combined, and I
wonder what the availability of other options is and f
people even know about them anymore.
--- pinkee@cavegirl.org wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 12:04:40PM -0500, Fred K
> Ollinger wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 11:10:18PM -0500, Fred K
> Ollinger wrote:
> > What is there to gain by applying a pppoe patch?
> Really curious here as it
> > is rock solid. It has gone down 2x in 3 months. It
> came back up when I
> > restarted the services--I made a script to do
> this.
>
> When I was using verizon as a dsl provider I applied
> patches at least
> twice a month. I had no need to reset it, although I
> hardly think you
> can refer to roaring penguins very interactive set
> up as hellish. The
> advantage to patching is the same reason people
> patch software, bugs get
> found and exploited. If you are on one ip long
> enough, they will get ya.
> I got hacked on a dhcp connection. Humorous side
> note: they apparently
> wanted out fast and had set up a daemon to mail conf
> files to them. The
> typo'd the e-maill addy :)
>
> > If there is an advantage to upgrading I will,
> otherwise, I'm pinning my
> > version to what works. I don't wish to go through
> the hell of setting it
> > up again.
>
> Think security.
>
> pinkee
> --
> www.cavegirl.org
> www.mydarlingchild.com
> "So you think that money is the root of all evil.
> Have you ever asked
> what is the root of all money?" -Ayn Rand
>
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