On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 09:53:02AM -0800, jdow wrote: > Tony, the best approach, from my experience, is to find a spare machine, > say an old 75 MHz Pentium, and set it up with a pair of NICs as your > firewall and network gateway using NAT. That will hide all your other > serious machines behind some level of protection. This will allow for > gadgets such as network printers and such.
In my experience, that's the wrong answer. You're far better off, long-term, to purchase one of those low-end home-oriented firewall boxes like a Linksys cable/dsl router. You'll have one less system to manage and it's a lot smaller with a lot less power, heat, and noise issues. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program
