A friend of mine is two network cables away from being able to install a firewall for his Windoze box. I shall be setting this up, using Debian of course.
He has an ntl:home "broadband" (150kbps) connection via a cable modem whose external interface is via coax and connects to the PC either by ethernet or USB. The connection is configured under Windoze by means of an installation CD. Raw details on the nature of the connection are conspicuous by their absence, as is any mention of Linux. Poking through Networking in his Windoze Control Panel seems to reveal TCP/IP drivers for the cable modem and no mention of PPP, so it looks to me as if we're probably not using PPPoE. He's configured to "Automatically assign IP address on connection" - Windoze DHCP? All his DNS settings are "Disabled", so I've no idea how his DNS works. I would be quite surprised if there isn't someone on this list whose Debian box is connected to ntl:home UK, and I would be most grateful if you could let me know what kind of connection we are dealing with here. Thanks, -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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