Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (359 mails)

[Ray Leach <raymondl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 13:01, 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.
> 
> Ken

Yes, maybe I should qualify that.

We have one machine that performs as above, the we have a Cisco 2501
(kind of overkill) that gets hooked up to the ISDN line.

The router/firewall/proxy/dns/etc Linux all-in-wonder box is for the
internal network and zones.


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