Dave, et al -- ...and then Dave Howorth said... % % I've been thinking about security a bit. Most of my home security ... % putting another dedicated machine in between my router and my network % to make it harder to penetrate. My router also provides my WAN, FWIW. % % Is this at all sane? Would openSUSE make a good basis for the machine? % What software would I need to run on it? What hardware power would I % need? I've enjoyed this discussion. I've wondered about the whole IoT thing myself. I'm lazy, too, so if I were going to tackle it, I'd probably create a network for all of those pieces -- and perhaps also houseguests -- that puts all of that in a sandbox so that none of it can see my machines. I'd likely put it "inside" and have that router/firewall go out through my trusted network so that I don't have to rely on MY traffic going through THAT network, but I also admit that I haven't thought about this a while lot :-) % % TIA, Dave HTH & HANW :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org