Re: Cable Modem on Linux
The seperate machine as a firewall is a quite good solution. And
more flexible than the cable router. I know some who have set this
machine up will an old "junk" machine that boots from floppy. Every-
thing then runs in ramdisk. Easy to recover if someone gets into
your firewall box. Now if they get on past it -- watch out.
masonc@masonc.com (Chris Mason) writes:
> Not a good way to do it. The place for a firewall is before the machines. I
> built a pentium 133 with two interfaces as a firewall, and that works great.
> Connect the external interface to the hub, use dhcp to get the IP, and use
> non-routable IPs for the internal network. Connect a hub or switch to the
> internal interface of the firewall and connect all the othe machines to that
> hub.
> You can use PMfirewall to make configuration very easy.
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