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Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls



On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:16:54PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:04:50PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
> > How large is the risk? If someone is able to crack your firewall box, how
> > much more trouble is it to crack your DNS/DHCP/Squid server?
> 
> That has too many variables to properly answer for your case, and
> there's not a particularly safe general answer.

Yes, I should've realised that. I take it's just safer to separate the
two whenever possible.

David



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