[TriLUG] OT: Dialup Firewall?

[John Turner]

Some Apple Airports have a modem and can be used for dialup 
connections. I once have a SMC or something similar that did two dialup 
lines at a time.

John

On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 02:30  PM, Ken Mink wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>   I got a frantic phone call from my completely computer illiterate
> father this morning. His home computer was getting hit with Master
> Blaster. My folks have a dialup account with the local version of Bill
> and Ted's Excellent ISP. They're in very rural PA. Since we all know 
> how
> good M$'s security is, does anyone know of a dialup version of the
> little router/firewall appliances broadband users have? The idea of
> their uncustomized XP machine hanging out on the internet scares me.
>   I've done some poking around, but have not been able to find one.
> Seems like there would be enough customers for such a product to exist.
>   I am very comfortable with iptables, but I don't want to support a
> dialup machine 600 miles away. They also don't have room for another 
> PC.
> I really need some kind of little appliance.
>
> TIA,
> Ken
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