help: DHCP & cable-modem

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Friday, July 02, 2004 11:11 AM -0400 Jon Shorie <jshorie at medinaco.org> 
wrote:

> The biggest benefit of something like this is that it increases your
> machine's  security by providing an additional layer between you and the
> internet.

That's true for Windows, which comes with a lot of ports open and listening 
by default. For Fedora, the default should be no external ports listening, 
so the router is superfluous. (If there are listening services in a default 
installation, that should be bugzilla'd.)

As root, try "lsof -i" to see what's listening on what port, to see if 
there's anything you don't want exposed to the Internet.