[Cialug] ISPs and patching routers

Nathan C. Smith nathan.smith at ipmvs.com
Tue Oct 2 11:44:11 CDT 2012


You mean the Eloi?


-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Dave Hala Jr
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 11:43 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] ISPs and patching routers

That's great for a geek. However, you'd never been able to get the other 95% of the population to do this, let alone explain it to them.

:) Dave

On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 11:32 -0500, kristau wrote:
> 1) Your ISP router shouldn't be your firewall. Consider it as sitting 
> in the DMZ.
> 2) Lock down external services offered by your ISP router and only 
> allow access from internal IPs.
> 3) Use a real firewall such as an Astaro or Vyatta just inside your 
> ISP router.
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