With all this talk of firewall distro's, what exactly are the
disadvantages to running running your firewall on the same server as
your webserver / ftp server / ssh server?

I run one box in basement that does all of the above, and I use
shorewall for setting up iptables.  It's also the samba / fileserver for
my family, hosting my music and pictures, and some gallery sites for my
kids.  All on my standard Roadrunner account.

Just curious.

Paul

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 10:59 -0600, sk3tch at sk3tch.net wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:59:58 -0600, Rick Meyerhoff <rick at eworld3.net>
> wrote:
> > IPCop
> > www.ipcop.org
> >
> 
> I would seriously consider using Astaro...free for home use (10 IPs, but
> not limited in any way to 10) and full control.  IPCop/Smoothwall only
> have incoming protection.  All outgoing traffic is allowed.
>  
> http://www.astaro.com/
>  
> Also, the SMTP and HTTP proxies use the Kaspersky AV engine (the best in
> terms of currency and hit rate).  For about $60 you can get a 1 year sub
> to that plus the content filtering option.
>  
> I used to use IPCop (loved it) but I would never go back after using
> Astaro again.
> 
> 
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