New on cable. Bash prompt name changed?

[Ingemar Nilsson]

Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> writes:

> "Bill Polhemus" <bill at polhemus.cc> writes:
> 
> > For the life of me, I do not understand why anyone would hook their
> > computer up directly to the cable (or dsl) modem rather than through a NAT
> > router.
> 
> Some people trust the software running on their computers more than the
> software running on a cable modem. Personally, I would never let a cable
> modem connect directly to my internal network. I would always want a computer
> I controlled acting as a firewall between it and my network.

If I have no running services with ports open to the network, what's the
real difference? Okay, I understand about possible kernel bugs, but how big
is this risk?

Regards
Ingemar