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RE: Shuttle & via epia... now firewalls
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- Subject: RE: Shuttle & via epia... now firewalls
- From: "Mark Marooth" <MMarooth@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:48:38 +0100
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Neil,
I've been running Smoothwall and more recently IPCop (Smoothwall fork)
under
Linux on a 486 DX2/66 for nearly 18months with no problems at all.
These are geared as firewall appliances and really intended that nothing
else
runs on the PC.
Mark
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Neil
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10/07/2002
13:48
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As an aside,
What would the best firewall be to run on a pc (windows or Linux)
Neil
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 July 2002 13:46
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Shuttle & via epia... now firewalls
Tony,
I sort of agree and disagree with what you say:
I agree with you that a Via board is ludicrously overpowered for running
the
firewall for a domestic LAN on broadband. A second-hand P90 with a 10Mb
HDD
would be fine, and should come in about
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£30 in a local PC fair.
I disagree that the solution is to run other services on a firewall. PC
hardware is _not_ capable of serving firewall functions as well as serving
resources to the internal network.
If you are going to go to the trouble of having a firewall, then do it
properly. Don't compromise it by adding lots of security holes.
Mark
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