[NTLUG:Discuss] DSL vs. Cable modem

[Kendall Clark]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Cobbe <cobbe at directlink.net> writes:

    Richard> Kevin McMillan wrote:
    >>  Although you will not find me singing the praises of any
    >> teleco, I have recently connected to GTE's DSL service for the
    >> following reasons. I notice you already have a GTE account, so
    >> it should be really easy to get your service started.

    Richard> Well, you may not have to change ISPs, but that doesn't
    Richard> affect how easy (or possible) it is to get *DSL service.
    Richard> (That being said: I've heard some unpleasant things about
    Richard> GTE's ISP; you may want to go through someone else.)

    >> 1) Due to internet research, I believe cable connections are
    >> far less secure than DSL lines.

    Richard> Really?  I certainly haven't heard anything about this.
    Richard> I know some ISPs will set up a firewall for you, but I
    Richard> think this is a per-ISP thing.  Me, I have a DSL
    Richard> connection, and I'm getting friendly with ipchains,
    Richard> portsentry, logcheck, cfengine, and friends.

I'm glad to see other people mentioning and using cfengine. I've been
doing so for quite a while and I'm consistently impressed with
it. Makes sysadmining fairly painless for the general case, especially 
after you pay the initial costs of configuring it.

<Kendall/>