Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my 486DX4 machine?

Re:Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my... by tivert on Thursday September 28, 2023 @10:21AM (#37689991)

> Even into the late 90s early 2000, modems (including ADSL) didn't come with a router, you had to establish a PPPoE connection from your computer, which also means your home machine was directly on the WAN with no firewall protection.

Even today modems don't always come with a routers. In fact, I like them that way :).

IIRC, the problem in the late 90s/early 2000s was routers were thought of as only necessary to get multiple computers online, and it was pretty common for people households to only own a single desktop. There wasn't enough security consciousness earned through repeated failure, so it "made sense" to direct connect consumer machines to the internet.

We actually had a LAN years before we had broadband, and I setup a PC running Linux as a router to share our 33.6 modem to the household.

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Re:Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my... by JohnFen on Thursday September 28, 2023 @10:42AM (#37690238)

> Even today modems don't always come with a routers. In fact, I like them that way :).

I agree. I have a better router that I'm going to use anyway, so I disable the router functionality in the modem if it has one.

My current one has no router or WiFi. Perfect!

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