You hit the nail on the head :) 
Old computers are cheap and firewall distributions are plentiful. 
Why expose everything in your network to save almost nothing!
I like Smoothwall myself.
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On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:59 AM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
>> allowing me to keep the box hooked up for its "tv" centric features.
DON'T!!!

A firewall, is a firewall and is a firewall.
In my perpetually delusional state of paranoia, I don't allow ANYTHING not
indispensable on my firewall.
And even though, I look for ways to eradicate...

My firewalls run in LFS with ONLY what is essentially needed for the job.

I even tried once "Debian from Scratch" and could not digest the amount of
junk they insisted on putting in.

my mantra:
DO NOT USE YOUR FIREWALL FOR ANYTHING ELSE BUT THE FIREWALL.
YMMV
Enrique.

PS: The fact that I am paranoid doesn't mean that they are not after me...
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