[ale] AT&T Broadbrand and Linux

[Glenn C. Lasher Jr.]

You could run ipchains as well and produce all kinds of complex rules
about who does and does not get in.  

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Chris Woodruff wrote:

> I thought I would share my experiences with the list.  I had a cable
> modem installed from AT&T (formerly MediaOne) on Tuesday.  The tech got
> it running with Win98 and it was simple.  Loaded up a win32 firewall app
> and was enjoying speeds up to 1100k.  I was told that next month AT&T
> will be doubling the bandwidths on the network to 3000k from 1500k.  So
> then I went to work with getting Linux to work with the cable modem.  I
> was using RH 6.2 but couldn't get the system to find my new ethernet
> card.  So I downloaded the RH 7 iso's (thanks to the person at GaTech
> for the mirror), burned the CD's and reinstalled.  I was amazed to find
> that after the install everything was working correctly.  I have to
> recommend AT&T broadband.  They seem to have really corrected the issues
> that MediaOne had.
> 
> My question is now about security.  What services do I shutdown to
> secure my system to stop any havoc from the outside?  I have shutdown
> sendmail and httpd.  Does anyone know of a good security site that will
> help?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Chris Woodruff
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