Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Paul Fraser wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:41, Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us mailto:n...@n0nb.us wrote: Not only that but as we move to IPv6 there is no such thing as NAT. Oh, how I wish that were true... The IPv6 spec includes NAT. Well NAT does have it's advantages, one

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-23 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:42:37PM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Well NAT does have it's advantages, one being that it can act as a reasonably good barrier as a NATural firewall. Sure, it's not perfect, but if you have every device with IPv6 (or v4 for that matter) being addressable

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-23 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Andrew McGlashan a écrit : Well NAT does have it's advantages, one being that it can act as a reasonably good barrier as a NATural firewall. This is a common misconception. I cannot tell about other NAT's, but Netfilter NAT is not a barrier at all. but if you have every device with

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Andrew McGlashan a écrit : Well NAT does have it's advantages, one being that it can act as a reasonably good barrier as a NATural firewall. This is a common misconception. I cannot tell about other NAT's, but Netfilter NAT is not a barrier at all. It's a

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Andrew McGlashan wrote: And from the further reading referenced in the other response [1] I see a problem with the following: quote At the same time, this tracking is per address. In environments where the goal is tracking back to the user, additional external information will be

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-23 Thread Steven Ayre
On 22 February 2011 00:45, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: shawn wilson put forth on 2/21/2011 6:05 PM: On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Pascal Hambourg put forth on 2/21/2011 3:51 PM: Stan Hoeppner a écrit : You only need one

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Andrew McGlashan wrote: An unpatched machine [for whatever reason], behind NAT has a fighting chance, but one which is directly addressable from the The protection offered by NAT is equivalent to a statefull firewall that only allow sessions to be initiated by the

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 21 feb 11, 22:39:46, Peter Tynan wrote: On 21 February 2011 21:24, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe this is mutt specific, but if I just delete the mail from Inbox in All Mail the message is still marked as unread (a.k.a new). If I mark it as read and sync, then

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 21 feb 11, 20:26:45, Petrus Validus wrote: Is there a way for this to be disabled and subsequently have messages be displayed in their specific folders...or is this just how Gmail works? This one of the better innovation brought by Gmail, if used correctly. I interpret

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-22 Thread Petrus Validus
I interpret the if used correctly bit to mean using the GMail web interface, not a 3rd party client such as Evolution or Mutt. Am I correct in this interpretation? No, I mean, AFAICT, IMAP was not designed for this paradigm (same message present in different

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-22 Thread Peter Tynan
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Petrus Validus wrote: I interpret the if used correctly bit to mean using the GMail web interface, not a 3rd party client such as Evolution or Mutt. Am I correct in this interpretation? No, I mean, AFAICT, IMAP was not designed for this paradigm (same message present in

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 22 feb 11, 09:18:12, Petrus Validus wrote: I interpret the if used correctly bit to mean using the GMail web interface, not a 3rd party client such as Evolution or Mutt. Am I correct in this interpretation? No, I mean, AFAICT, IMAP was not designed for this paradigm (same

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-22 Thread Paul Fraser
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:41, Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us wrote: Not only that but as we move to IPv6 there is no such thing as NAT. Oh, how I wish that were true... The IPv6 spec includes NAT. P.

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Paul Fraser wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:41, Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us wrote: Not only that but as we move to IPv6 there is no such thing as NAT. Oh, how I wish that were true... The IPv6 spec includes NAT. Which RFC? -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-22 Thread shawn wilson
On Feb 22, 2011 6:10 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Paul Fraser wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:41, Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us wrote: Not only that but as we move to IPv6 there is no such thing as NAT. Oh, how I wish that were true... The

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, shawn wilson wrote: On Feb 22, 2011 6:10 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Paul Fraser wrote: Oh, how I wish that were true... The IPv6 spec includes NAT. Which RFC? Lmgtfy - 4684 and 5902 - don't know off hand, you'll

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-21 Thread Russell Gadd
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use) Resent-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:54:49 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org I keep my current D-User folder (relatively) small by having maildrop

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2011 20 Feb 22:06 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Some consumer wireless routers don't like to do DHCP pass through, and won't serve DHCP when configured as a bridge, in which case the Linux firewall will have to serve DHCP. If the wireless router won't pass DHCP from the wired to wireless

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-21 Thread Petrus Validus
Get away from the web interface. Install Icedove/Evolution/Mutt and use Google's IMAPs interface. I use Evolution and Mutt with Google's IMAP interface. It works nicely but I've noticed this quirky behavior when using a client via IMAP. My messages appear in multiple places at the same

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread shawn wilson
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net wrote: On Sunday 20 February 2011 03:03:35 pm Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2011 20 Feb 14:22 -0600, Elmer E. Dow wrote: Greetings: I'd like to set up a network with a firewall for my home computers for security, control

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 21 feb 11, 12:59:56, Petrus Validus wrote: Get away from the web interface. Install Icedove/Evolution/Mutt and use Google's IMAPs interface. I use Evolution and Mutt with Google's IMAP interface. It works nicely but I've noticed this quirky behavior when using a client via IMAP.

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Tynan
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Petrus Validus wrote: Get away from the web interface. Install Icedove/Evolution/Mutt and use Google's IMAPs interface. I use Evolution and Mutt with Google's IMAP interface. It works nicely but I've noticed this quirky behavior when using a client via IMAP. My

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 21 feb 11, 07:17:18, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2011 20 Feb 22:06 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Some consumer wireless routers don't like to do DHCP pass through, and won't serve DHCP when configured as a bridge, in which case the Linux firewall will have to serve DHCP. If the wireless

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Tynan
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Lu, 21 feb 11, 12:59:56, Petrus Validus wrote: This one of the better innovation brought by Gmail, if used correctly. Unfortunately it's not very usable via IMAP. Example: How do I tell mutt to tag the message as read in All Mail when I delete it

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 21 feb 11, 20:49:49, Peter Tynan wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Lu, 21 feb 11, 12:59:56, Petrus Validus wrote: This one of the better innovation brought by Gmail, if used correctly. Unfortunately it's not very usable via IMAP. Example: How do I tell mutt to

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Tynan
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: If you send via Gmail's SMTP you always have a copy in Gmail's sent, so it should be enough to tell alpine not to save its own copy. Check the headers - I use a local sendmail. I've been doing some digging and it is in a sub-folder named Google

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Andrei Popescu a écrit : Just don't forget to make sure the router's internal IP address is different from any other machine on the network. Just like any other device. Nothing special here. Easiest way for me was to just use different sub-nets. Example: leave the router on 192.168.1.1

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Stan Hoeppner a écrit : You only need one NIC in your firewall box when using a switch. You simply plug everything into the switch including the DSL modem and the Netgear. Bind both the public and private IP addresses to the same NIC in the firewall using a virtual NIC: i.e. eth0 and

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Adrian Levi a écrit : I'd also suggest a static ip configuration with a setup like this, as you'll only have one computer at the end of each ethernet segement you won't gain anything from DHCP, you'd need a subnet declaration for each nic and a pool statement. Ethernet cards can be bridged

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 21 feb 11, 22:48:21, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Easiest way for me was to just use different sub-nets. Example: leave the router on 192.168.1.1 and build my own network on 192.158.0.XXX This is unnecessary, and makes it hard to manage the device. Ok, but IMVHO it would be a good

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Andrei Popescu a écrit : Ok, but IMVHO it would be a good idea to make sure the DHCP server does not allocate the router's IP to some other host. Of course, like any other statically assigned address. Again, nothing special here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Tynan
On 21 February 2011 21:24, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe this is mutt specific, but if I just delete the mail from Inbox in All Mail the message is still marked as unread (a.k.a new). If I mark it as read and sync, then it's also marked as read in All Mail. I assume

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Pascal Hambourg put forth on 2/21/2011 3:51 PM: Stan Hoeppner a écrit : You only need one NIC in your firewall box when using a switch. You simply plug everything into the switch including the DSL modem and the Netgear. Bind both the public and private IP addresses to the same NIC in the

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread shawn wilson
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.comwrote: Pascal Hambourg put forth on 2/21/2011 3:51 PM: Stan Hoeppner a écrit : You only need one NIC in your firewall box when using a switch. You simply plug everything into the switch including the DSL modem and

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2011 21 Feb 18:14 -0600, shawn wilson wrote: supposedly, there is also a way to 'pivot' past a nat device - i haven't looked into this, so i can't speak to this much... Not only that but as we move to IPv6 there is no such thing as NAT. New network device installations should be taking

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread John Hasler
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
shawn wilson put forth on 2/21/2011 6:05 PM: On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.comwrote: Pascal Hambourg put forth on 2/21/2011 3:51 PM: Stan Hoeppner a écrit : You only need one NIC in your firewall box when using a switch. You simply plug everything into

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
John Hasler put forth on 2/21/2011 6:24 PM: 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. How is this a security issue? Broadcast packets coming

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-21 Thread Petrus Validus
Is there a way for this to be disabled and subsequently have messages be displayed in their specific folders...or is this just how Gmail works? This one of the better innovation brought by Gmail, if used correctly. I interpret the if used correctly bit to mean using the GMail web

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-21 Thread Petrus Validus
Hmm, as far as I understand, a message is always present in [Gmail]/All Mail', unless moved to [Gmail]/Trash or [Gmail]/Spam. New mail (not filtered) goes to my Inbox. If I want to get rid of it for good I move it to [Gmail]/Trash, but if I want to archive it I just delete the Inbox tag

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: Or from the inside. If none of the machines on the LAN are running Windows you're probably ok. Stan writes: How is this a security issue? Broadcast packets coming from the customer that hit the DSLAM are instantly dropped. Nothing to do with the DSLAM. These routers usually

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
John Hasler put forth on 2/21/2011 7:34 PM: I wrote: Or from the inside. If none of the machines on the LAN are running Windows you're probably ok. Stan writes: How is this a security issue? Broadcast packets coming from the customer that hit the DSLAM are instantly dropped. Nothing

selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-20 Thread Elmer E. Dow
Greetings: I'd like to set up a network with a firewall for my home computers for security, control and convenience (file sharing), as well as to learn about networking. We have the Internet entering via a Motorola DSL modem and it currently passes data through a NetGear wireless router. I'd

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-20 Thread Adrian Levi
On 21 February 2011 06:02, Elmer E. Dow elmere...@att.net wrote: Greetings: Snipped 300 Mhz processor boot manager on 3.5-inch diskette so it can boot from diskette, CD or hard drive ethernet jack on motherboard 5 pci slots 4 isa slots (I have a pci nic and 2 isa nics on hand, plus

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-20 Thread John Hasler
Elmer writes: 300 Mhz processor boot manager on 3.5-inch diskette so it can boot from diskette, CD or hard drive That'll work fine as long as it has enough RAM to install Debian. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-20 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2011 20 Feb 14:22 -0600, Elmer E. Dow wrote: Greetings: I'd like to set up a network with a firewall for my home computers for security, control and convenience (file sharing), as well as to learn about networking. We have the Internet entering via a Motorola DSL modem and it currently

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 20 February 2011 03:03:35 pm Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2011 20 Feb 14:22 -0600, Elmer E. Dow wrote: Greetings: I'd like to set up a network with a firewall for my home computers for security, control and convenience (file sharing), as well as to learn about networking. We

Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-20 Thread Heddle Weaver
Got to get away from gmail. No list reply feature. -- Forwarded message -- From: Heddle Weaver weaver2wo...@gmail.com Date: 21 February 2011 13:41 Subject: Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use To: Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net On 21 February 2011 12:26, Greg

To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/20/2011 09:42 PM, Heddle Weaver wrote: Got to get away from gmail. No list reply feature. Get away from the web interface. Install Icedove/Evolution/Mutt and use Google's IMAPs interface. -- The normal condition of mankind is tyranny and misery. Milton Friedman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Elmer E. Dow put forth on 2/20/2011 2:02 PM: Greetings: I'd like to set up a network with a firewall for my home computers for security, control and convenience (file sharing), as well as to learn about networking. We have the Internet entering via a Motorola DSL modem and it currently

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
John Hasler put forth on 2/20/2011 3:08 PM: Elmer writes: 300 Mhz processor boot manager on 3.5-inch diskette so it can boot from diskette, CD or hard drive That'll work fine as long as it has enough RAM to install Debian. Not to mention disk space. Even though the OP asked on this list,

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-20 Thread Peter Tynan
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:02:48 -0600 From: Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use) Resent-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:03:05 +

Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 20 February 2011 06:42:12 pm Heddle Weaver wrote: Come with a few things installed. I remember a few years back, a furore over factory installed trojans on Belkin routers. Belkin apologised and all the noise went away, but I haven't forgotten in the current atmosphere of

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/20/2011 11:01 PM, Peter Tynan wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:02:48 -0600 From: Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-20 Thread Peter Tynan
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:54:27 -0600 From: Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use) Resent-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:54:49

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-20 Thread Peter Tynan
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:54:27 -0600 From: Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use) Resent-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:54:49

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/21/2011 12:17 AM, Peter Tynan wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:54:27 -0600 From: Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use