Re: [Nolug] Using RH9 as a router and nat firewall

On Friday 11 July 2003 1:29 pm, Dave Prentice wrote:
> Somebody may want to correct me on this, but I've heard that it's not
> a good idea to use your main machine as the firewall/router. It's
> really easy to take an old 486 and set it up as a router using
> freesco. It is easily able to handle the packet transmission speed of
> cable or DSL.

My server is also my firewall / router ... what's the problem there? If
money's no object of course I would have DMZ, etc., but I'm into
economy here; it's just my home setup. And my firewall is hand written
(about 800 lines worth), not some canned script.

-- 
Tim Kelley
tpk at 23rdward dot org
genuine iptables freak
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