OT: ADSL safe practices and setting up a home network

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

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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