On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > > But then I have two D-Links, and I'm very happy with both. > > Folks advocating those consumer firewall / NAT boxes might be > interested to read this. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/dlink/ > <<snip>> > Note, I can't see the value of running one of those under-powered > boxes as a firewall. Why? It uses the same software firewall that > fedora does. Why not run the firewall on a more powerful box like > your main computer? To answer your question, sort of, "Because I mess up my more powerful machine on a semi-routine basis." Mind you, I try to keep a firewall going on that more powerful machine also which should be fairly tight also, but I figure one reasonable firewall backup with a second firewall created a different way should be moderately resistant to automated attacks. -- ============================================= If you think Education is expensive Try Ignorance Author Unknown ============================================
