> -----Original Message----- > From: Otto Haliburton [mailto:ottohaliburton@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 2:18 AM > To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list' > Subject: RE: Router/Firewall Recommendation > glad you have the time and energy to do what you do and it > works for you. > With all the maintenance and stuff, I am glad you have the > time to do it and > I can tell you are deep into it. For $40 dollars, I can put > my computers > behind a firewall and forget about it cause it ain't going to > be hacked by > anybody and it has good performance and reliability. So if > you got the time > and stuff, that is good for you. Are you more secure no. I mean large > corporations would have a perfect solution with your hook up > but they are > very vulnerable with this setup. Routers have their problems > and in to > enable certain features you can open up, but for all > practical purposes > individuals don't need to do that. So for the cost factor > you can't beat > the hardware router. Cheers!! And for $0, you can download IPCop and do the same with a donated computer, which IS a hardware firewall; it's slightly less "Fire and Forget", but it's also a world more powerful, and a world more secure. BTW, NAT as security is the same security you get from using Microsoft Windows: Security by Obscurity. If you think that's the be all, end all, then why are you on a Linux mailing list? BTW, time to install an IPCop from Scratch: ~10 minutes. Time to reinstall, and reconfigure: ~10 minutes+15 seconds. Time to configure a Firewall Brick: ~10 minutes (sometimes more; some of them are poorly configured, and require constant reboots of teh brick everytime you change a setting). Peace of Mind over having a REAL Firewall based on IPTables, SQUID, SNORT, decent logging, etc., that I can configure to exactly the way I need, complete with DMZ, if needed: Priceless. Bill Ward -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
