[Sheflug] Re: Silicon Graphics (Iris?) / Smoothwall

[Richard Ibbotson <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

James

> That would be great. I mean, a PIII is a good machine, and although
> I need something that will share a cable modem with the rest of the
> house (much as Id like to hog it all to myself), i don't really want
> to waste the machine as just a server, if it could  possibly act as
> both.

If it's a high bandwidth cable modem then you most definitely need a 
good firewall instalation.  If you are worried about using a PIII for 
a firewall then don't use that machine.  Use some scrap from 
somewhere else instead.

If you build a firewall machine then it's quite simply the case that 
many people will try to root it so that they can steal data from you. 
 My own firewall logs for a dialup firewall box look like something 
out of a detective story.  Against this background of fact rather 
than fiction you should have a properly configured firewall if you 
want to use the net.

Thanks

-- 
Richard
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