Kurt Granroth wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2005, at 2:30 AM, Craig Brooksby wrote:
>
>>> I use a linux box as a router and file server for my home lan...
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>
> Not that's not to say that you *can't* combine the services. Most
> people do, in fact. I used to. It's extremely convenient and as long
> as you keep up with all of the patches to iptables and the various
> servers, it's unlikely you'll be cracked. But having a separate
> dedicated firewall makes me sleep just a little bit better at night.
>
> Kurt
I prefer the model where the firewall box does less not more. The
machine I run here is a 486/66 (someone else beat me for old machines in
this thread with a 486/33) just rebuilt into a slackware box due to a
failing hard drive.
It runs nat/firewall/dns and nothing more. Still it has almost a 300mb
install. An interesting project that I haven't had a chance to put into
use yet is the FREESCO (Free Cisco
http://freesco.org) router project
that boots from a floppy and supports 10 network devices.
Patrick
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