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| - | Your home has it's internal network (more details about it [[networking|here]]) and at least one external connection, your ISP. | + | Your home has it's internal network (more details about it [[networking:start|here]]) and at least one external connection, your ISP. |
| The interface between your internal network and the internet is also called your **gateway** and it's a critical piece of infrastructure. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) will indeed provide you with one device that acts as a gateway, but you should think of this device as dangerous and not good to be your internet gateway because this device is actually in the hands of your ISP. In my experience, changing ISP will give you a different ISP gateway which will be incompatible with the older one and force you to change your internal network. Moreover, who knows if your ISP gateway has backdoors or other security issues? | The interface between your internal network and the internet is also called your **gateway** and it's a critical piece of infrastructure. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) will indeed provide you with one device that acts as a gateway, but you should think of this device as dangerous and not good to be your internet gateway because this device is actually in the hands of your ISP. In my experience, changing ISP will give you a different ISP gateway which will be incompatible with the older one and force you to change your internal network. Moreover, who knows if your ISP gateway has backdoors or other security issues? | ||