Thanks for your reply. That's what I was thinking... Do you have any proposal for books ? Should I first start reading the how to ? Few days ago, I read a mail concerning someone who make a firewall with a system with only a floppy disk (no hard disk). Is it a good way to set a firewall ? What's about the system ? 486, Pentium, ... and memory ? Thanks Pasca MiQUET ----- Original Message ----- From: Alexander Bien To: Pascal MiQUET Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 5:24 PM Subject: RE: [suse-security] All in one box ! Is it a good solution ? Hi, dont run any services on the firewall .. thats what a DMZ is to be used for .. Read a book about firewall architektures.. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Alexander Bien -- PIRONET NDH Alexander Bien - Technical Assistant - SBU Services Josef-Lammerting-Allee 14-18, 50933 Cologne - Germany Tel.: +49 (0)172 7760569 - Fax: +49 (0)221 770 2815 mailto:abien@pironet.com - http://www.pironet.com -----Original Message----- From: Pascal MiQUET [mailto:pascal.miquet@wanadoo.fr] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 5:13 PM To: suse-security@suse.com Subject: [suse-security] All in one box ! Is it a good solution ? Hello, One of my friend ask me several questions concerning the security of a small company. He'll get in few days an ADSL connection. For some costs purposes (I think) this connection will shared with another company. The goal is to get a Mail server, Web access, ...and share all this with his LAN I've suggested to set a Firewall like ipchains, first to be realy separated from the network of the other compagny; Does it make sense to set the Mail server on the same machine ? How does this will be setted because I think all Mail clients will be Macs ? Thanks for your help Bests Pascal MiQUET