This is very sound advice. You could purchase a machine dedicated as a firewall for < $100 that would be more than adequate. <quote who="Tommy Moore"> > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 06:16:11AM -0400, Charles Crawford wrote: >> * Our INTERNET services will also run through the Linux machine >> through a separate NIC for use with electronic mail and other web > access. > > I suggest using another machine as a firewall. I wouldn't be > completely comfortable putting the main data server directly on the > Internet, but that's just me. > > Tommy > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Matt B. White Tel: 508.969.2836