[Tfug] modem and router combo

[Predrag Punosevac]

Chris,

Correction to my previous message.

WAP is not a wireless cryptography system but something else. I meant to  
say
that SMC WI supports WEP and WPA/WPA2 wireless cryptography systems. I was  
also
under impression that you want cable modem not DSL like I have thus  
appropriate link.
My network of currently 3 FreeBSD boxes ( I got some new once) is WPA  
crypted
and if you have any problems writing your wpa_supplicant.conf file
let me know. The handbook does a damn good job.
I have also a box running OpenBSD but I didn't want use WEP just to be able
to use OpenBSD on the wireless network.

Actually my plan is to put OpenBSD box as a firewall between my Motorola  
modem and
Wireless access point (although Modems come with pre-built PF) and have  
FreeBSD boxes behind
the access point.

WEP is not secure at all ( I could probably brake it in 5-10 sec) and even  
WPA is not really
secure for a serious hacker (probably 30 second would be enough).
The way to go is to tunnel things through VPN (Virtual Private Network) but
I did not set mine yet. OpenVPN of OpenBSD is really great although at U  
of A we use Cisco 3000 VPN server so
I do have Cisco client on one of my FreeBSD machines just to be able to  
see the class rosters for the classes
I teach.

Best,
Predrag

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:48:18 -0700, Ronald Sutherland  
<ronald.sutherland at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well I have to say I'm sorry christopher its been years since I looked at
> these and I had no idea the market terminology has morphed a plain NAT
> router into what they are now calling a cable router. Its not like those
> things only work with Ethernet sources from a cable box but they sure  
> don't
> have a cable media interface. The cable modem is a router itself, and I
> thought that was what you were looking at, its just that you don't have
> access to the router functions.
>
> On 10/26/07, Jeffry Johnston <tfug at kidsquid.com> wrote:
>>
>> I searched google for: cable modem router combo
>> and found this on the first page:
>>
>>
>> http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1138056788757&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper
>>
>> Looks like everything you could want in one box.. wireless, wired,  
>> router,
>> cable, Linksys (Cisco).  Wonder if it runs Linux... :P
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> On 10/26/07, Ronald Sutherland <ronald.sutherland at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 10/26/07, christopher floess <skeptikos at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > >   I have this with DSL, an Actiontec that is a modem and
>> > router.  There
>> > > is also a firewall built in.  I don't know if this is available or  
>> not
>> > for
>> > > cable.  The last time I used cable, we had a separate modem and
>> > > router/firewall because we already had the modem when we decided to
>> add
>> > more
>> > > computers.
>> > >
>> > > Good to hear that such a thing exist in some fashion.
>> > > Now I know I'm not crazy :) I'll keep looking for a cable
>> > > version.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > Yep, but DSL's router function is not needed by the phone corp, the
>> router
>> > admin is often the user, while with cable the router is needed for
>> outside
>> > paths, and router admin is the cable corp. I would think a cable  
>> router
>> > could do NAT and port forwarding and all that crap but the router  
>> admin
>> > needs to set it.
>> >
>>
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