Verizon Fios (Fiber-to-the-Premises) Internet (Cheap??) plus other questions

[Dave Andruczyk]

> I have a second, working, 1.13GHz Linux box now that I am going to use 
> with 10/100 NIC cards as a router.  Will my speed be any better 
> compared to what I get with my Linksys router?  I mean can the little 
> router be a bottleneck?
> 

Doubtful.  My last router was a P100 with dual 100mbit nics and it was no
faster traffic wise than my D-link DP713 Router/AP/firewall/printserver

> How much faster is my server going to be if I leave XWindows out of the 
> kernel?  Does it matter for a little hobby server like mine, should I 
> just leave XWindows in for easy configuration?  I can sftp and ssh into 
> my Linux server from my Mac so I really don't need much after I learn 
> all the config files.
> 
Xwindows is NOT in the kernel. Installing it is no problem, it just eats disk
space,  for security reasons do NOT have it startup X11 on boot (runlevel 5 on
most distros).  The less things you have running that keep ports open the less
likely you are going to have a break-in.  As always on a router/fw only the
bare necessities should be running, ssh mainly,  but if you want to trick most
out there, set it up to run at a different port number so that doesn't show up
on a typical fast network scan. (setting the default listen port is in
/etc/sshd/sshd_config.)  connecting to it requires an additional arg (-p
portnum) 

 

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Dave J. Andruczyk


		
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