[NTLUG:Discuss] SBC Yahoo Management

[Jay Urish]

Get her one of those Linksys/Cisco firewalls... All yahoo uses is PPPoE.

One of my customers is using a little netgear websafe firewall and has no 
problems...



At 12:33 PM 2/1/2004, you wrote:
>Howdy,
>   My next door neighbor just go SBC/Yahoo DSL.  She is a Windows 200
>user and she has connected the DSL modem directly to the ethernet card
>on her computer.  She has to run a management console program to connect
>to the internet.  Does anyone here have experience with this software?
>It is working fine for her, but I want to set up a router/firewall that
>will sit between her machine and the net.  If this software is just a
>PPPOE(I think that is the name) login, then a IPCOP machine or an
>inexpensive router from Frys should handle it.  My interest is two
>fold.  I want to help her keep her machine safe.  But, if we setup a
>router, I could take my Linux laptop over and connect up easily while
>I'm visiting.
>Thanks,
>Ralph
>
>
>
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Jay Urish       W5GM            Systems/Network Engineer
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