[CentOS] Using a CentOS 6 Machine as a gateway/router/home server
Sorin Srbu
Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se
Mon Jun 29 13:46:38 UTC 2015
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of James B. Byrne
> Sent: den 29 juni 2015 15:10
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Using a CentOS 6 Machine as a gateway/router/home
> server
>
>
> > Please note: I'm not criticizing, just curious about the argument
> > behind using a regular OS to do firewall-stuff.
> >
>
> Maintenance.
>
> A consistent set of expectations does wonders for debugging odd-ball
> occurrences. Why learn the idiosyncrasies of two distros when one
suffices?
> Just start with a minimal CentOS install on your router/gateway and add
only
> the packages that you know that you need.
> Any critical omission will evidence itself in short order and can be added
then;
> or the source of the need removed as circumstance warrants.
Sorry for OT.
Even considering a minimal CentOS install, is that still less minimal than
e.g. Smoothwall or Ipcop?
In my world, security has a price and, and that might be the need to learn
another distro in order to minimize security issues (and maybe as in this
case minimize attack-surfaces).
Still just curious about the arguments pro/con regular OS:s as firewall. 8-)
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//Sorin
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