karate

Got one of the Linksys 1 port routers and threw a 5 port hub onto it. I think it's a really slick little unit. The latest firmware "stealths" any un-routed incoming traffic...quite a few by default. I've still got a personal firewall running on my PC, but it hasn't red-flagged since I put the router up. One of the really cool things you can do is have it log inbound and outbound traffic. That way you can see just what kind of activitiy is going on. Dshield has a list of good Linksys log viewers for most major OS's, which makes it really easy to know just what's happening and see who's knocking on the doors and jiggling the locks.

I think it's still a good idea to leave your personal firewall installed, just as a backup, but this is a great little box.


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