[CentOS] firewall?

Drew drew.kay at gmail.com
Sat Jul 16 12:01:20 UTC 2011


>> That being said, one should *never* create firewall with only one NIC!
>> It is highly unsafe.
>
> So I shouldn't run a firewall on any of my hundreds of single nic
> instances?

I think he's referring to the standard router/firewall scenario where
the server is an internet gateway for a network. There I'd consider a
single interface system as inherently insecure.


-- 
Drew

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