On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 23:44, you wrote: > [request for demand dialling] > > > It would be a very good idea to use one of the distributions specifically > > intended for use as a gateway on a separate machine. vis:- > > > > IPCop, Smoothwall, Gibraltar, FreeSCO, and many others. > > Why would it be a very good idea? So that when the black-hats get the sadistic urge to trash a machine on your i/p number, the sacrificial f/w machine gets it instead of your precious data on your desktop or server machine. Yes it's happend to me. IPCop back up with updated file set in about 20 mins.
-- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
