On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 01:34:01PM +0100, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
I think it does not add so much respective to the present situation and in addition it is unapplicable: there are some ADSL modems who force the computer to use an address in the 10.x.x.x range for interfacing with them and that means that the ethernet card with an address in the 10.x.x.x is in direct contact with the Internet and, according to your proposal, unfirewalled.
It adds a fair bit if you add a "Masquerade" tick box to the existing network configuration bits.