Re: [tlug] FTTH ISP recommendation

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Quentin Arnaud writes:
 > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:
 > > Why do you want to get rid of KDDI's gateway box?
 > >
 > It's all in Japanese, it's quite hard for me to do some NAT / port
 > forwarding with it's UI.
 > Also no traffic shaping. And finally I doubt it handles ftp traffic
 > well when you have a server insde your NAT (not tested yet) .

Yeah, but why do you care?  Do your best to turn it into a bridge or
maybe a simple firewall to give the ssh script-kiddies one more hoop
to jump through, and then put the interesting stuff on your own box
inside.  90Mbps is not something to kick away lightly, and someday you
may appreciate having your own private DMZ.