On 2020-12-03 19:40, home user wrote:
Yellow? Is that safe? (Joke.)
I could use a good laugh these days. I 'm missing the joke. Please explain it.
Sometimes what users think is just a "modem" also contains a small router and enough of a firewall to do NAT. Sometimes (as with my cable-tv vendor broadband in the UK) the user can, as I have, elect to use the "modem" in modem-only mode (which is to say I've turned off the router/firewall part) and use a separate router/firewall one step further into my network.
Do you have any idea if your "modem" is just-a-modem, or more than that?
It's a phone modem. It connects my workstation and my land-line phone to comcast. That's all I know.
Eg if you've ever logged-in to it, does it have firewall-ish functions?
No. I don't think so, but I'm not certain.
Do you know the model-number of the modem?
Here's what I have on it: ---------- Arris Model: TM822G P/N: TM02DHD822
SN: D4GBRE77E219673 EMAC: 5C571A713DD6 CMAC: 5C571A713DD7 MTA MAC: 5C571A713DD8
TM822G/NA-8 790635 ----------
Bill.