[sf-lug] Monday meeting and Bobbie Sellers' news

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Sun, 2018-04-15 at 22:11 -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Daniel Gimpelevich (daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us):
> 
> > It'll also have a Bridge Mode, which will render it invisible to the
> > Internet and Cloudflare, and equivalent to your Westell.
> 
> Well, that would be cool -- but IMO having a whole lot of built-in
> non-modem functionality that can be put into a theoretically disabled
> mode (which you _hope_ removes it from the attack surface) is less
> desirable than it not being there in the first place.  (But, horses
> for
> courses, as they say.)

The only difference between having any non-modem functionality and not
is software. Take the previously mentioned Netgear DM200 for example:
It's a modem, and it's not designed to have non-modem functionality, but
reflashed with OpenWrt, it's a full wired router, just short on Ethernet
connectors. Similarly, the DG834G in bridge mode will have no non-modem
functionality aside from a Fast Ethernet switch.