Re: Port Forwarding

From: Amy and/or Russell (rmunday_at_)
Date: 09/07/03 

Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 14:31:13 GMT

I agree with wholeheartedly with the Linux Gateway/Firewall option. At my
work I built an OpenBSD box with PF, it runs on a P2 300MHz with 128 MB of
RAM. It's been up for 90 days straight, and it has never broke a sweat
connected to a cable modem. This was a very cheap option, as the box was
just lying around doing nothing anyway. There are several sites that can
walk you through it very easily.

http://www.muine.org/~hoang/openpf.html

> There are ADSL router/modem combination appliances. I think the bottom
> line is that a Windows anything as a gateway/firewall device is
> questionable, unless it's a *Baston Host* device where the vulnerable
> services on a NT based O/S are stripped from the gateway machine. The
> Windows O/S(s) are too vulnerable to attack. Maybe, a Linux
> gateway/firewall machine or the router in front of the NT based machines
> are viable solutions for good protection.
>
> It's just a suggestion.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315669
>
> Who is to say that it won't happen?
>
> Duane :)
>

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