Re: Firewall and DMZ topology - Thanks for all the information

["William J. Burgos" <wjburgos () white-bear-productions com>]

Greetings all,

Thank you all for your reply to my question regarding Firewalls and DMZ
topology.

This has been a lively thread with a great amount of opinions and wisdom
offered. 

There is a lot of information that I can and will absorb and I am sure
that I can find a reasonable solution. 

If I can scrap up an old PC, I would probably go with an three leg
system, which seems to be easier to set up.

In any case, I will follow up on the suggestions and report my results.

Thanks again,

Bill

On 火, 2003-06-10 at 17:46, Brad Mills wrote:
> William,
>
> > I would like to set up a SOHO network with a firewall and DMZ for mostly
> > web serving and email. Of course, there are private PCs on the internal
> > network, Windows and Linux.
> >
> > My connection is a dynamic IP on a pppoe and I already have an old
> > laptop used as a simple firewall setup. 
> >
> > I am considering separating my web and email server to a dedicated
> > machine and placing it in a DMZ.
> (snips)
>
>  Possible: Grab an old PC, 3 NICs, and install smoothwall (gpl) for free, see 
> if it will do what you need: PPPoE/DMZ/Trusted LAN. Sets up in about 20-30 
> minutes. Have done several of these, they work well.
>  http://www.smoothwall.org/home/
>   if a 'smoothie' appeals, be sure and visit (for more info)
>   http://www.quarkav.com/SmoothWallGPL/index.php
>   
>   As well, browse www.Sans.org for much more on firewalls, 
>   free of .02 opines ;) at the Reading Room: 
>   http://www.sans.org/rr/catindex.php?cat_id=21
>   
>   HTH,
>   /b
>
>
>
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