[Leaplist] advice on wifi router please

[andrei raevsky]

Dear friends,

Thanks for the all the explanations.  Looks like I should have no problems
at all.

BTW - why would I use any hardware firewalling at all if I use IP tables
with pretty much everything dropping in stealth except the minimum to browse
and download via ftp?

Cheers!

Andrei

On 7/18/07, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 18 July 2007 11:41, Aaron Morrison wrote:
> > Every wireless router/access point I've seen can be configured via an
> > http interface on the local network...
>
> Same here. That's why I was so alarmed when hearing "non-linuxable", and
> hoped
> that simply meant you can't change the firmware. It would be horrible if
> you
> couldn't even configure the router from Linux.
>
> > Some of the newer ones have an
> > "easy config" mode (like press a button) that can be a pain to use,
>
> I hear ya brother! My Linksys travel router came with one of those
> buttons,
> and to me it was unfathomable, even though I was trying to config it with
> my
> last win98 box. I called tech support, they told me the config IP address,
> and I easily configured it.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/
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