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

On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 16:34, Tim Kelley wrote:
> 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.

If someone cracks my firewall, then they have basically nothing,
and must crack into my machine to get anything useful.

If someone cracks your machine, he has access to all of your
files.

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