5 Jan
2009
5 Jan
'09
20:43
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 13:42 -0500, James Knott wrote:
Hans Witvliet wrote:
I would suggest to use an small machine as a central point in in your network, acting as firewall, mail-hub, nfs-server, backup-server, etc etc...
I thought the general idea was to have as little as possible running on the firewall, to limit security issues.
If one can aford it, or is willing to. One _additional_ firewall is better than just a bunch of machines with their own host-based-firewalls, that are perhaps of questionable quality. To save iron, some use shorewall FW...., doing just iptables and class-based queueing. hw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org