On Friday 14 Sep 2007, Wil Reichert wrote: > I'm assuming since you're asking this question your firewall is locked down > pretty tight.
Not particularly, but it seems silly to take needless risks. It has shorewall to manage iptables, but I still let it run squid, ntpd, dnsmasq and a few other little goodies. I suppose I rely on shorewall to keep me safe. > That said, backing up your personal data to it seems like a not very good > idea. Were you planning on encrypting it or something? I see what you mean, but really the main use of the backup would be to recover a working system to a damaged box (I can be just as clumsy in admin as anyone else), rather than spending a week or more rebuilding it from source. User data could perhaps be backed up elsewhere - I have a handy little USB disk that would do nicely. > Who uses your internal network seems to be the variable here. Is this at > work or home? The clue was in "my tiny LAN" which means my own :-) > Is there a wireless router thrown in there somewhere? The one wireless link is between the laptop and an access point; the WAP is connected to an Ethernet switch which lives between the workstation and the gateway. Why do you ask? -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
