Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use
From: John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:24:01 -0600
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 4D62F904.3040603@hardwarefreak.com> (Stan Hoeppner's message of "Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:45:08 -0600")
References: <[🔎] 4D617362.2020801@att.net> <[🔎] 4D61E478.4080504@hardwarefreak.com> <[🔎] 4D62DE67.4050804@plouf.fr.eu.org> <[🔎] 4D62F904.3040603@hardwarefreak.com>

Stan writes:
> For this to be a real security issue, any attack must start below the
> IP level...

Or from the inside.  If none of the machines on the LAN are running
Windows you're probably ok.
-- 
John Hasler

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