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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
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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