e-Smith

[George Toft]

Hi Charlie,

I would suggest taking off all of the services from your firewall.
The way you have it set up now makes your entire network extremely
vulnerable should the firewall be compromized.  

Squid had a vulnerability about 5 months ago that demonstrates
why you should not have it running on your firewall.

My $0.02.

Regards,

George


Charlie Bullen wrote:
> 
> Hi, I got into linux via a gateway microserver, which was actually a cobalt
> qube. I really liked it but became sort of bored as there is not much that
> can be done with it other than what it comes with. Since them I have been
> using various linux distros for both desktop and server, primarily Suse
> andRedHat. I always wanted to be able to duplicate all the cube functions
> using a normal distro, but my linux abilities are not totally there yet.
> 
> Then I stumbled upon e-smith which duplicates all the microserver functions
> and more. I have 3 working  installations, one at home
> which I am using as a firewall, proxy server, samba server, print server and
> outgoing l server, also I use it as a test web and mail server.  This on a
> dialup connection. It works great although I have been able to break it
> whith a lot of effort. I had used the backup program that comes with it and
> did a new clean install and a resore and it was back to the way it was
> before. This one I have upgraded to version 5, which took all of my previous
> seting and kept them in the new installation.
> 
> I also have 2 production machines, both using DSL connections. One has 4
> userers. All they use it for is a firewall/proxy server. The other
> installation has 15 users. Currently we are using it as a firewall/proxy
> server, a samba server and a VPN server using PopTop pptp, which comes with
> it. I administer all of the boxes using ssh, you can easily turn telnet,
> ftp, web and VPN on and off. This week we are going to put up a low volume
> web site and start running our own mail server off of this machine.
> 
> I'm real happy so far.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Charlie
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Achtenberg" <tachtenberg@qwest.net>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 5:13 PM
> Subject: e-Smith
> 
> > Any one know anything about this e-Smith gateway/firewall software I
> picked
> > up at the last West side meeting?  I'm ready to put in a dedicated
> > gateway/firewall box and move everything else to a private intranet and
> was
> > wondering if this is decent or would something else be better.
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