News: ISP releases Hacked Firmware for Linksys Router

[saaya]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23535

lol, i wonder what linksys will say :D

[craig588]

I think I have one of those stashed away somewhere. I need to flash it just to try it out. Disabling NAT is a great plus though.

[Disposibleteen]

i love my hacked up wrt54g, new firmware lets you do so much more ;)

[Jeff]

Observations on home network security

While NAT can make it difficult for legitimate applications to function properly, it has one major upside: it almost completely protects the home network from intrusion attempts. Since no machines on the home network have a publicly routable IP addresses, it is not possible for an intruder to attempt to communicate directly with those machines unless the NAT box is specifically configured to enable such traffic.

The IPv6-enabled firmware makes all machines on the home network publicly accessible. Any machine on the internet with a globally routeable IPv6 address may try and access any machine on the home network directly. To try and mitigate the risk to the home network, our firmware ships with a very restrictive firewall setting by default. Users may modify the firewall settings to meet their needs, or may decide to disable it. By default, however, the firmware only permits incoming TCP connections on port 22 (SSH). Inbound traffic to high UDP ports (those above 1024) is also permitted. All other inbound traffic is denied.

Not really any reason to have all my machines publically accessible. :shrug:

[craig588]

It makes routing a true plug and play experiance. I bought a router, not a firewall. I have a seperate firewall for filtering.

I like the modded firmware, it basicly makes the router an invisible part of the network, not something I need to reconfigure every time I change any computer or device.