Ken Schneider wrote:
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 05:09, Ray Leach wrote:
This is slightly off topic. It would probably be better suited to the netfilter mailing list (http://www.netfilter.org/).
Use one PC as router/firewall/proxy/gateway ... we do this for 4 networks on a single PC with 128MB RAM, a lot cheaper than a Cisco 1610 or above ...
Ray
This is great if you have a small office on a tight budget. But how do you place a price on the security of your network and proprietary data? In the case of security I always buy the "best" product for the job and find it better to use seperate boxes for the router and firewall to help make it harder to break into the network.
We've deployed lots of Linux firewalls, and that's all they do. Keep services, and therefore potential weaknesses, to an absolute minimum. Put the proxy, routing etc. on a separate box. Cheers, Laurie. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com --------------------------------------------------------------------