Re: Securing networks
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 12:35:47 +0100,
Piers Kittel <edinfo-list@biased.org> wrote in message
<[🔎] 3F508C13.9030702@biased.org>:
> Hello,
>
> > If you are really interested in getting security and having some
> > functionality hosted yourself (mail/web) then I would strongly
> > recommend you consider a DMZ for your hosting.
> >
> > This can be done a number of ways. But if you can spare an extra
> > machine, this would be pretty good and save you about $1,000.
> > Install smoothwall or ip-cop on it and you will have a dedicated
> > hardware firewall. This is a great place to start.
> >
> > Now you can leave all your windows boxes on a LAN and host a DMZ as
> > well.
>
> In fact, I'm using Smoothwall right now for the current network, but I
>
..try ipcop, over at http://ipcop.org/ , also has a pretty
good support list, so I cc.
> couldn't find anything to do with DMZ on the router? Although the
> ADSL router I have (not used atm, will be using it for the new network
> though) does have DMZ, used that without success in the past, although
> I'm a bit worried about putting my main PC in the DMZ all the time - I
> might want to log in my PC from work. Or I could just forward one
> port that SSH uses?
>
> Cheers for your help
>
> Piers
>
>
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