Only marginally. If speed is of the essence in its use and you are
operating a server open to the public, you'll take a small
performance hit. Otherwise, feel free to use your gateway machine for
a web server where security isn't terribly important. e.g. a vanity
site.
Just remember that the gateway machine is evident to anyone from
outside the LAN, and thus is exposed to the degree that you don't
protect it with a software fire-wall product. On the other hand,
everything on the other side of your double ethernet setup is
invisible to the outside, unless you open up mapped ports for various
services like WWW or FTP.
>Thanks for the advice. I do have both PCI slots open so will
>probably do as you suggest. Could you tell me whether using the
>gateway computer for other things, like running a printer or surfing
>the internet, interferes with its functioning as the gateway, or
>vice-versa?
>
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