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RE: Re: Shuttle & via epia... now firewalls



Paul,
 
Your options are:
- A multi machine firewall with different OS'es and differentf irewall software on each machine
- A hardware router/firewall that plugs into your net connection at one end and your lan at the other (a lot of these are also 4/8 port switches too - eg draytek, smc)
- A PC (even a $15 486) running IPCop or similar with 2 network cards in it - one to connect to the net, the other to your lan.
- A PC which runs firewall software AND stores your MP3's on it. (Controversial -d epends on how valuable your data is) 
 
Of these, probably the $15 solution is the one many would recommend, though I am happy with the hardware router/firewall solution.  It means no big noisy box in the corner drinking loads of electricity and (with the draytek offerings for example) you can have VPN functionality built in, independent of the OSes running on your PC's
 
HTH,
 
Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Watkin [mailto:paul_watkin@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 11 July 2002 23:41
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Shuttle & via epia... now firewalls

Mark,
 
Following suggestions from the group I am trying to get to grips with SME server, this has the ability to act as a firewall/gateway webserver and also network server, which is how intend using it.
 
From what you and others have stated in this thread this seems a very bad idea :-(
 
Can anyone on the list tell me if it is possible (and how i do it!!) to have my MP3 collection and my photo album in an IBay on the SME server and have them accessible from my website (using Andromeda) as well as to my internal network as files (for audiotron winamp etc) without compromising the firewall??
 
Many thanks
 
Paul
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 8:39 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Shuttle & via epia... now firewalls

> >See Mark Harrison's post on what a firewall *should* look like.
> >_that_ is doing the job properly. Your £15 pc is not.
>
> Oh contraire, my £15 Linux based IPCop does a sparkling job...

Well, even Tony seems to accept that I know what I'm talking about
when it comes to Internet security :-)

Lee - I completely agree with you that IPCop is a very appropriate
security system for protecting a domestic network. The base data used
to calculate the complex bits of my tax returns is on my , and I'm
far more concerned about THAT being compromised than

Lee - I further agree with you that running additional services on it
does indeed compromise the security provided by exposing the kinds of
faults you describe.

Tony - I agree with you that a Via is an expensive overkill for a
domestic firewall. However, I don't think that the right answer is to
install other services on it. I'm sorry, but I have to say that doing
so creates security holes.

Regards,

Mark


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