Newbie Questions Part 1
Hello,
I am quite new to Debian and Linux in general, and really started using
Debian as it was the only distro. I could find on the net that I could
install from floppies. I have graduated to potato CDs now though.
I've been experimenting with an old 486 and am now ready to embark on my
first real project as a way of learning more about Debian and networking
in general.
I would be grateful if you could help by answering a series of questions
I have noted down (the first 2 are below). I have installed potato and
some modules and packages (inc. ipmasq) and have my
Debian box masking the presence of my Windows PC. What I would like to
do is rebuild the Debian box so it has the bare bones necessary to work
as a firewall.
The kind of structure I have in mind is:-
[Win. 98 Box]--eth--[Debian Box]--modem--[Internet Service Provider]
I intend to add other machines on my network later and have the Debian
Box doing ipmasq, ipchains and diald.
My first two questions are:-
Would it be *much* safer to insert a second Debian Box with 2 ethernet
cards, one machine to do the firewalling and one to make the connection
to the internet? Presumably if I did that the machine making the
internet connection would be potentially vulnerable?
Is there anything wrong with using IP addresses such as 10.0.0.1 and a
subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 for my machines? The gateway will have a
dynamic IP addr. from my ISP as well.
TIA
Mike
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