[31991] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Security on a home DSL Line
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Charlap)
Thu Nov 2 19:20:09 2000
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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 19:17:07 -0500
From: David Charlap <david.charlap@marconi.com>
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"J. Gilmore" wrote:
>
> I'm looking to beef up security on a home DSL line. Currently I am
> using ZoneAlarm (the freeware version).
> I'm thinking of taking an old Pentium 120, and setting that up as a
> firewall, but wanted to know if anyone else had a better idea.
That's what I do with my home LAN. I set up an old 486 (which I had
lying around doing nothing anyway) with two Ethernet cards and Linux on
the hard drive. I use the built-in IPCHAINS facility to set up firewall
rules. It's not terribly fast, but fast enough to do line-rate at the
speed of my 256K SDSL line.
-- David
