[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: firewall/router to protect M$ box

Johnny Cybermyth djcybermyth at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jul 15 15:11:47 CDT 2005


That is a question for the experts(other's on the list).  I would 
imagine that you could use your main linux box to serve up Internet 
access with great firewalling with virtually no performance hit to your 
main box.  GNU/Linux runs a firewall all of the time anyway on most 
everyone's machine so it would be a matter of how resource hungry 
masquerading is.

Anyone else?

  tr_data1 wrote:
>>From: Johnny Cybermyth <djcybermyth at sbcglobal.net>
>>Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Discuss Digest, Vol 31, Issue 19
>>
>>I have a DSL account with SBC Yahoo!.  I set my home network up 
>>using an older p2 box running a stripped down version of suse(v6.2
>>I think) as a firewall/router.
>>
>>[chg to h/w firewall/router resulted in insufficient protection to M$]
> 
> 
> That's my belief as to what would happen. I was kind of hoping that the
> h/w ones were more robust by now. Some even talk about SPI and
> DoS protection. I'd rather not have a monthly/yearly expense of virus
> protection s/w on the M$ box either if going through a firewall catches
> most things. 
> 
> If your main box was/is Linux, would you still have a separate machine
> for the firewall/router? I have a k6/233 not being used right now but
> it doesn't seem worth the elec$/heat/space expense vs running on my
> main box. What are the advantages? I can't imagine such a task would
> consume much ram/cpu/disk. Right? Or is it a matter have having all
> the ports, etc more tightly controlled on the firewall/router box?
> =TR=
> 
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