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Unless its limiting you in some fashion, leave it there as an extra |
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layer of protection - dedicated HW firewalls are often more secure than |
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a general purpose machine, but lose out in the flexibility/functionality |
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stakes. You can also get funky and use the gentoo box to detect suspect |
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traffic, and then deny it by uploading the ACL deny to the firewall. |
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Personally, while I really like my gentoo firewall/gateway, I would love |
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to have this option to completely remove traffic I designate from |
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hitting the inner firewall at all. Make the most of it! |
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BillK |
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On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 21:42 -0500, Mark wrote: |
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> I'd like to build a gentoo box to act as a single router between a |
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... |
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> One quandary I have is regarding the hardware firewall. We have money |
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> invested in it, but does it buy me anything now that we are creating |
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> the 2 separate subnets? Should I just sell it and let the Gentoo box |
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> be the firewall as well? |
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> Thanks for any insight, as always. |
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> -- |
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> Mark |
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> [unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own] |
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