Quoting Clay Fandre <clay at fandre.com>: > On Wed, 03 Sep 2003, Timothy Wilson wrote: > > > What if I use WEP and all the other standard security measures? Would you > > trust it on the internal LAN then? It's risky, I know, but I'd like to have > > access to my internal network with the laptop if possible. > > I actually left some things out. I do allow access from my DMZ back > into my internal network, but only for ssh. With ssh you can port > forward X11, or just about anything else you need. This discussion highlights the dilemma for all of us geeky, but not professional home users. Where on the ease-of-use/unlimited-flexibility security continuum should I be? Is it better to have a drop-dead easy router/firewall like the Linksys product that is probably good enough 99.9% of the time or better to take an old machine (I've got PPro 200 lying around) and build a rock-solid firewall/router that will allow me to have a "real" DMZ, but is also one more machine to maintain? The geeky side of me would love to fiddle around configuring that old PPro as a router/firewall. Unfortunately, the other side of me has little time for such things and needs to chase my kids, mow the lawn, do my homework, etc. -Tim -- Timothy D. Wilson Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA email: wilson at visi.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list