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

On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 23:03, Tim Kelley wrote:
> On Friday 11 July 2003 5:40 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 16:34, Tim Kelley wrote:
>
> > If someone cracks your machine, he has access to all of your
> > files.
>
> Well, regardless, if you're running a public server, whether it is a
> firewall or behind one, there's no real difference. If you weren't
> running anything publicly accessible there would be a point.
>
> For example, i am running smtp, dns, http, https, pop3s; all accessible
> to the public. In my little case it makes just as much sense to run my
> firewall on my "server". If someone were to break into my network
> somehow it would be the same.

Yes, because port forwarding would not give any security boost.

However, a workstation with someone's personal files on it is
a different thing.

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