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Old 21st January 2009
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Originally Posted by JMJ_coder View Post
And what if your stupid and annoying modem, which acts as a gateway/router, has its own inane firewall on it? And it doesn't offer any option to turn it off.

I would love to replace it with a *BSD box or just place *BSD on the modem/router -- but I can't see how to do that with the way my ISP handles stuff.
If you're talking about FiOS (which is the service I have), I think you can turn the the modem/router/firewall into a bridge without changing firmware or anything so that you can use your own hardware instead, but I'm not 100% sure on that
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