OT: ADSL safe practices and setting up a home network
tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
Fri Apr 14 18:43:03 UTC 2006
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>
> > But then I have two D-Links, and I'm very happy with both.
>
> Folks advocating those consumer firewall / NAT boxes might be
> interested to read this.
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/dlink/
>
<<snip>>
> Note, I can't see the value of running one of those under-powered
> boxes as a firewall. Why? It uses the same software firewall that
> fedora does. Why not run the firewall on a more powerful box like
> your main computer?
To answer your question, sort of, "Because I mess up my more powerful
machine on a semi-routine basis." Mind you, I try to keep a firewall going
on that more powerful machine also which should be fairly tight also, but
I figure one reasonable firewall backup with a second firewall created a
different way should be moderately resistant to automated attacks.
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