The seperate machine as a firewall is a quite good solution. And more flexible than the cable router. I know some who have set this machine up will an old "junk" machine that boots from floppy. Every- thing then runs in ramdisk. Easy to recover if someone gets into your firewall box. Now if they get on past it -- watch out.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Mason) writes: > Not a good way to do it. The place for a firewall is before the machines. I > built a pentium 133 with two interfaces as a firewall, and that works great. > Connect the external interface to the hub, use dhcp to get the IP, and use > non-routable IPs for the internal network. Connect a hub or switch to the > internal interface of the firewall and connect all the othe machines to that > hub. > You can use PMfirewall to make configuration very easy. -- * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish... John 3:16 *
