16 Jul
2011
16 Jul
'11
5:05 a.m.
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Drew drew.kay@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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