From: Phil (ciscostudent1@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Mar 15 2002 - 01:02:34 GMT-3
Thomas,
I have the configuration you're talking about and PAT provide you complete secu
rity as it does not allow any translation from outside to inside. You're gonna
start to worry if you want to allow any access from the outside to any inside h
ost/device.
Phil
Thomas Larus <tlarus@mwc.edu> escreveu: I will be getting cable modem service
soon, and I have a router/wireless
access point combo device that hides your LAN behind it and uses the one
dynamic IP address that the ISP provides through DHCP to deal with other hosts
on the internet.
It would seem to me that in this situation, a hacker's access to your local
network (which uses private address space addresses) is severely constrained,
but common sense tells me that this cannot be enough protection, so what are
the remaining attacks that a hacker/cracker could try, if he was interested in
my lowly home PC(s). To make matters worse, it is the notoriously insecure
cable modem, not DSL.
Thomas P. Larus
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