You could consider creating an independent firewall. I am using Smoothwall
(http:www.smoothwall.org) on my home network of two desktops and one laptop.
Smoothwall supports DMZ with can be used to put your webservers outside your
LAN and still offer them protection and separate from your LAN. I made my
Smoothwall using an old Pentium 133 with 32MG of RAM and a 425M HDD, and
three NICs. It has a nice web interface for configurations, easy to install
and maintain. And GPL.
Best Regards, Bruce
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 10:53, you wrote:
> Hy all,
>
> I maintain a small Hosting center with 6 webservers, fax, pop3-mail.
> etc. I only have one C Subnet! I would like to protect my servers with a
> iptables firewall. Unfortunately, it seems to be odd to put the fw AND
> the servers in the same subnet.
>
> It seems to be possible to install two NIC's in the firewall and point
> one of them to the Net, the other to the webservers, but both configured
> for the same subnet. But that configuration seems to be rare and I
> cannot find documentation about it.
>
> What's your opinion?
> Many thanks, Benjamin
>
>
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