On 9/14/07, Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
Shorewall is good =) If its your own private LAN with no (few?) external users, why bother with ssh & encrypting traffic? Wil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
