[luau] Firewalls

Randall Oshita roshita at uniserveinc.com
Tue Oct 29 13:02:00 PST 2002


>I would recommend minimally a Pentium with two bus mastering PCI slots
>and two decent PCI 10/100 NIC's.  You must be careful because it is
easy
>to find Pentiums that don't properly use bus mastering on two PCI
>slots.  For example if a PCI slot is immediately next to an ISA slot,
>that is shared and it isn't bus mastering.  Some BIOS'es will show or
>allow configuration of bus mastering too.
>
>As far as security goes, general rules apply just like any other Linux
>box.  Keep all your packages updated at all times, disable all
>unnecessary services, NEVER USE FTP OR TELNET into the box, and
maintain
>a very minimal amount of open ports through firewall rules.
 
Whoa! I guess a P3 650 256MB 20gig would be overkill huh?
10 users.

Randall Oshita




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