[TriLUG] Cable modem + firewall + router

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

Hah! Go figure. I've been waving my fist at TW lately. Waiting for AT&T to roll out uVerse to my neighborhood (which I doubt will EVER happen).

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Paul G. Szabady
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 9:53 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: [TriLUG] Cable modem + firewall + router

Greetings,

I just upgraded my TWC service to a business class with 5 static IPs. 
Unfortunately, all I got from TWC was a U10C020 AMBIT cable modem/router
configured in bridge mode.  They won't provide access to configure it, and
even if they did, I'm not sure it'll do what I want.  What I would like to
have seems pretty simple and straight forward to me, but maybe I have a
screw loose.  In essence, I want to have a gateway router (their modem?),
a firewall that'll route to the static IPs, and of course, 5 ports for my
servers.

Does anyone have any recommendations?  I have iptables configured for now
on my linux machines, but the windoze boxen are at risk...  I know,
there's a windows firewall as well.  But I really need the protection to
be before the servers, not on them.  (Long story, but it has to do with
vmware and NAT being too slow for this app.)

Thanks in advance!

-- 
Paul
@ Thy Service


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