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Re: Protecting against the Alcatel ADSL modem vulnerability
- To: Shlomi Fish <shlomif(at-nospam)techst02.technion.ac.il>
- Subject: Re: Protecting against the Alcatel ADSL modem vulnerability
- From: Dani Arbel <darbel(at-nospam)techunix.technion.ac.il>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 21:39:33 +0300 (IDT)
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Shlomi,
Your ADSL has an ip # in 10 net , and is not accesible from outside. You
have to protect your host ip # only.
If you are paranoid and fear that someone will control your ADSL modem
from outside (pure ATM) then you can limit the connections alowed for
10.0.0.138 .
Dani
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I have an Alcatel ADSL modem at home and I use it to connect my Mandrake
> 7.2 Linux to the Internet. I followed the HOWTO and everything is working
> fine.
>
> Now, I want to set up a firewall that will protect my computer in case
> somebody penetrates the modem. I have already set up an IP-Chains firewall
> to protect me against connecting to TCP ports via the ppp0 interface, but
> should I also do it for the "eth0" interface?
>
> Any pointers and guidelines would be highly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Shlomi Fish
>
>
>
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>
> A more experienced programmer does not make less bugs. He just realizes
> what went wrong more quickly.
>
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