Re: [Nolug] [nolug] topic for novemb

On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 21:50, the Professor wrote:
> That isn't the problem. I just need to learn how to share out the modem for
> dial on demand and then I can figure out how to do the rest. I have 3

I think what you want is diald.

> machines here that are well powered for cpu and memory, so the firewall can
> be setup on one of them if I wish. If I was really desperate, I would take
> my old MSDOS 6.22 machine and turn it into a firewall. Right now I keep
> that one to play Frontier Elite!

Someone correct me, but isn't it the conventional wisdom that "co-
locating" the firewall on a workstation or server is a security
risk? The logic goes that if the cracker breaks onto the stand-alone
firewall, then he still must ssh onto internal nodes (you've removed
telnetd from all machines, right??), but if he breaks onto the fire-
wall, and it's your workstation, then he's on a powerful box with
all of your data...

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Prentice" <prentice@instruction.com>
> To: <nolug@joeykelly.net>
> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 7:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] [nolug] topic for novemb
>
>
> > Why not get an old 486 and use a firewall such as Freesco? You could
> > set it up to be your gateway, so that any machine inside the network
> > reached the outside world through it.
> > Dave Prentice
> > prentice@instruction.com
> > http://www.originsresource.org
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: the Professor <nyghtgolem@bigplanet.com>
> > To: nolug@joeykelly.net <nolug@joeykelly.net>
> > Date: Monday, November 04, 2002 2:31 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Nolug] [nolug] topic for novemb
> >
> >
> > >Ok, my personal situation.
> > >
> > >I have two desktops that my wife and I use regularly. I have 3 linux
> > >computers (my cluster which has yet to be named) one will have a
> > modem in it
> > >and be the dial on demand. I would like to share this connection and
> > >ability to have it connect at need to the two desktops. From there,
> > >learning how to set up the email filters and firewall and such would
> > make it
> > >that much better.
> > >
> > >Any know where I can get a cheap 19" rack?

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