recommend hardware firewall
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Mon Apr 5 05:01:05 UTC 2010
On Monday 05 April 2010, Michael Miles wrote:
>On 04/04/2010 07:41 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Sunday 04 April 2010, Michael Miles wrote:
>>> On 04/04/2010 12:32 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 03:26:52PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>>>> I see no benefit to a hardware router vs. running Linux with the
>>>>> firewall configured.
>>>>
>>>> Well, yes, there is. Two different platforms, different firewalls,
>>>> mean that no single attack vector can be used on both of them.
>>>>
>>>> I wouldn't recommend the BEFSR41 line, though. Get a WRT54G/WRT54GL
>>>> and load either Tomato or DD-WRT. Much more capable than the native
>>>> firmware, and free to boot. (Or to run...joke...)
>>>>
>>>>> There are good, free, firewall packages you can run on a cheap
>>>>> machine.
>>>>
>>>> That's effectively what you're doing with the free firmware on
>>>> commercial firewalls, without the need to maintain another full OS and
>>>> usually in a very much smaller physical package.
>>>>
>>>> $0.02, YMMV, etc.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> --
>>>> Dave Ihnat
>>>> dihnat at dminet.com
>>>
>>> I have found that yes it is quite old
>>>
>>> I am about to flash the firmware to the latest befsr-v1.46.02_FW_code
>>>
>>> its a bin file and from what I understand under linux I am to use tftp
>>> to do this
>>>
>>> tftp 192.168.1.1
>>> mode binary
>>> put CODE.BIN
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am just trying to figure it out before I go ahead
>>>
>>> Michael
>>
>> Please check the serial number and version of your befsr-41 on their web
>> site before doing that, I understand that stuffing too new a FW into an
>> older one will brick it. I know of at least 3 versions of it.
>
>So I should step it up by flashing all sequential updates?
>
I have never done that myself. But there are warnings, or were, on the
linksys download site, saying you can't put a version 3 image in a version 2
unit. I wasn't trying to scare you, just make sure you did your homework.
;-) I have one of those units, but it hasn't been plugged in in a couple of
years as I switched to DD-WRT on a clapped out k6 box with everything non-
essential stripped. Not even a hard drive or a floppy. It boots from a cf
card on the end of an ide cable. I used gftp to update mine several times
though, it Just Worked(TM). And so far, no one I didn't give the password
to has gotten to it, or any of the machines behind it.
--
Cheers, Gene
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