Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] router woes

[Mick]

On Wednesday 29 Mar 2017 08:45:33 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 22:52:25 -0700, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> > PS. I still would like to know what people in this list think about
> > having an ISP managed device as router, re security. Not that I have
> > any real option if I want the contracted speed...
>
> It's more a privacy issue that security for me. I have a similar setup
> with a virgin cable router, which I set to what they call modem mode,
> where only one of the ports works and connects to my router. The one time
> I ran tech support they were able to see that I was using it this way and
> even reset the modem for me. I suppose it makes life easier for them and
> their typical customers, but it was a little unnerving.

Perhaps your 'modem mode' is a half-bridge set up with a public IP address and 
they can still access it via WAN?  Bear in mind the TR-069 daemons may still 
be running no matter how you set up the router, unless you stop them manually.  
I have a Huawei which I use in a fully bridged mode as a modem and have to 
stop such services manually on every reboot, after I log into it with SSH.
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Regards,
Mick