Hack attempts

[Andy Green]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Sunday 25 July 2004 10:46, David Keen wrote:

> It is never bad to have another level of defence between your PC and an
> untrusted network, but I ended up switching off the firewall in my
> Linksys router because it was dropping ICMP do-not-fragment packets.
> This meant path MTU discovery was not working so Postfix was timing out
> after DATA on large emails.
>
> Of course, if you don't run your own mail server this isn't a problem.

Some Netgear NAT routers die the death with intensive Bittorrent use.  Not 
sure what resource gets used up first, but these "Hardware routers" are often 
quite weak CPUs combined with very little RAM.

IPCop ( www.ipcop.org ) is a very nice firewall loosely based on RH7.2 with a 
lot of powers, and using the 2.4 Linux kernel, no arbitrary limitations 
either.  I run one here on a flash-based fanless "Book PC" and it has been 
just great.

- -Andy

- -- 
Automatic actions for USB cameras, cardreaders, memory sticks, MP3 players
http://warmcat.com/usbautocam
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFBA5aVjKeDCxMJCTIRAjQJAKCYAMcSEyIHKMMs8ksWtT77TJrh9gCdHWCK
tXMHK0Whs2f1VOQEvtPZdWg=
=lShw
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----