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Re: Worms versus Bots

  • From: Matthew Crocker
  • Date: Wed May 05 08:06:28 2004 




Its not manufacturers who did not caught up (in fact they did and offer

very inexpensive personal dsl routers goes all the way to $20 range),
its

DSL providers who still offer free dsl modem (device at least twice
more

expensive then router) and free network card and complex and
instructions

on how to set this all up on each different type of pc. No clue at all

that it would be only very marginally more expensive for them to
integrate

features of such small nat router into dsl modem and instead of
offering

PPPoverEthernet it could just offer NAT and DHCP and make it so much
simpler

for many of those lusers with only light computer skills to set this
all up.





Agreed,



We require a NAT device or true firewall on all DSL customer
connections. We sell cheap Linksys boxes to customers or they can
upgrade to a SonicWall. We don't use an Integrated modem/router
because most of them are junk.



You won't find a single Windows/Linux/Mac machine directly connected to
our DSL network. I still like PPPoE for customer authentication
because I can place individual packet filters or re-assign users to
different contexts based on username/password authentication.
PPPoE/NAT is a good combination. Couple that with 3 levels of virus
scanning on our mail server has reduced the effects of virus and worm
spread inside the networks we control. We still get viruses & worms to
hit but it is at a more manageable rate. We are not a large provider
by any means but I try my hardest to provide a solid network and
protect the Internet from my users as much as possible. If only the
users would not shop solely on price I would be all set :/



-Matt






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