[CentOS] firewall?

Rudi Ahlers Rudi at SoftDux.com
Sat Jul 16 13:05:12 UTC 2011


On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Drew <drew.kay at gmail.com> wrote:
>> not to mention danger of PC's bypassing your one-NIC firewall and
>> unsafely connecting to the outside.
>
> That I think is the biggest danger with a one NIC setup.
>
> Linux boxen may be safe(r) (then windows) from being infected or
> hacked but just one malicious machine can bypass the security in place
> if you don't logically *and* physically separate your subnets.
>
>
> --
> Drew
>


You can have the same problem with a multi-NIC firewall, by the way.

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