Guide to get cable modem working with debian

On Dec 31, 2003, at 10:13 AM, Craig White wrote:

> You probably should consider the wireless network as untrusted as is
> the
> internet. On your computer, you could create iptables rules to reject
> everything but port 22 & 515 from the network (tcp - printing might be
> udp, I don't know). Then if you needed access to say files from your
> linux desktop, you could pipe it through ssh. If you have more than 1
> computer on the 'wired' side of things, this would be a problem.

I was considering this when I saw your email. My wife really likes to
use #548 and that could be a problem but I could probably find some
drag'n'drop client that runs over #22. RBrowser?
>
> In this case, the idea would be to have 2 routers, one for the internet
> and the wireless router. The wireless router would set the
> restrictions... only ports 22 & 515 go to any ip address on the wired
> lan, everything can go to the default gateway on the wired lan.

The 675 DSL modem actually has this function.