[Cialug] ISPs and patching routers

Dave Hala Jr dave at 58ghz.net
Tue Oct 2 11:42:47 CDT 2012


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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