Re: other services on a firewall
Just out of curiousity why would you limit a perfectly fine PC
to just run a firewall? You should be able to add other services
along with the firewalled machine and not freak out over security
as bad as long as you set everything up properly.
Isn't there an old saying, "The program is only as good as the
programmer?" Couldn't that be applied in this case too?
Personally I run a small local network that has access to the
Internet via one of my Linux machines. This machine also
has a web server, file server, and a FTP server on it too.
I don't have to worry about security with any of these services
running on the firewall machine because I set each up the way
I needed them to be so that only the correct people get access.
Granted this takes longer then just unpacking and installing the
source of each, but it is well worth it and helps consolidate
the expense of one machine per service.
Personally I think that putting all your faith about these other
services in one simple firewall is crazy, but that is only me.
Just a humbled opinion...
Ken
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