Re: [Sheflug] after a cable modem which supports SIP

[Robin Wood <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 21:59 +0000, Chris J wrote:
> Robin Wood wrote:
> > Hi
> > I'm moving to a house which has cable so I'm going to be needing a cable
> > modem. Can anyone recommend one which will support SIP? Even better
> > would be one which will take openWRT (I assume that openWRT will support
> > SIP).
> 
> As others have pointed out, Virgin (formally Telewest/NTL) supply a 
> router for you, however it simply acts as a network bridge. You can do 
> some poking about them - they're a Motorola Surfboard (or at least the 
> one I have is) - whether they've changed supplier in the past few years 
> I'm not sure.
> 
> The configuration on the CM is minimal; there is (or at least was last 
> time I checked) some horrendously simply filtering supplied in the 
> configuration that blocked ports 135-139 (Windows SMB), but not much 
> else. You can't change the configuration of the box as its managed 
> centrally by Virgin. You can however use SNMP tools on it to grab 
> traffic stats to drive tools such as MRTG :-)
> 

Are you saying that Virgin connect to the box to make changes? There has
to be security issues with that, they connect and make changes without
you knowing, they could open anything, or close something to stop you
doing stuff.

Robin
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