home network security w negear router

[jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com (miah)]

They fix firmware quickly?

www.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/

-miah

On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 09:16:48PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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> steve at horne.homelinux.net wrote:
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> > This must be a fairly common setup.  If someone who is running
> > something similar would describe what they did to secure it, I'd be
> > grateful.
> > 
> > Currently on RH 7.3.
> I think that many subscribers of this list are running with cable modem
> routers, like the Netgear box. I am running a Linksys BEFW11S4 which has
> a built in 4 port switch + wireless. I have never had any problem with
> it or its predecessor the BEFSR41 (wired only). JABR routinely brings
> his BEFW11S4 to BLU meetings and Installfests. Additionally, several
> engineers I worked with at Compaq have the same box. 
> I have seen comments on other lists. While these boxes have had some
> security issues, they tend to be corrected quickly by firmware updates. 
> Unlike true firewalls, these are simply NAT boxes. 
> 
> 
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> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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