[LAD] [ot] - NEED some security advise PLEASE! + new question

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 15 February 2009, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:39:09AM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>> ... And if it's a public server,
>> I'd rather not have anybody logging in through ssh who is not capable of
>> dealing with key logins. I disabled password logins through ssh on
>> my public machines.
>
>That seems to be the best way to deal with it.
>
>A weakly related OT question:
>
>I need to set up a machine as a router. One side is
>a fixed public IP address, the other side is a local
>net using 192.168.1.x. I want to give internet access
>to the machines on the local net, so this requires
>(AFAIK) NAT. Anyone has a pointer to a good tutorial
>about how to do this ?
>
>TIA,

Just one answer IMO, DD-WRT.  Runs from a CF card in an adapter on the end of 
a PATA cable.

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