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One of the beauties of building your own firewall box is that if you want |
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to add a subnet (ie, for guests in the household that you don't want |
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touching your sensitive LAN boxes), you just plop a new NIC in and go.. |
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being limited by how many NICs you can put in a firewall box is a bit |
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counter-productive IMNSHO. ;) |
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On Tue, July 18, 2006 09:37, Benoît DEPAIL wrote: |
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> That might be a good solution, but a firewall needs two network |
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> interfaces. |
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> So you must have a USB modem, because I don't see how you can add a |
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> second ethernet card to this box... |
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> That's a pity, I'm looking for such a thing ATM, but I need two ethernet |
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> nic to run my firewall |
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> Jesse, Rich a écrit : |
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>> Hey all, |
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>> While surfing last night, I came across the Linksys NSLU2 "Slug" |
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>> NAS-like USB controller that can run Gentoo. See |
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>> http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/GentooSlug/HomePage I was thinking that |
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>> perhaps it could be used as a cheap-ish (and quiet!) standalone |
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>> firewall. It got me thinking that I might be able to use a cheaper |
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>> diskless SunRay running Gentoo (possible?) for such. I'm sick of my |
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>> Linksys 4-port router bouncing everytime it gets too much UDP traffic |
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>> (e.g. Enemy Territory, Unreal Tournament, and later versions of Azureus) |
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>> and I don't think it would be a good idea to use my file/mail/web/DB |
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>> server as my firewall. |
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>> Thoughts? |
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>> Rich |
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