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halted firewalls
\ Ludo (24 Feb 2007)
. \ Alexander Klauer (24 Feb 2007)
. . \ Ludo (25 Feb 2007)
. . . \ Sam Couter (25 Feb 2007)
. . . \ Holger Schletz (25 Feb 2007)
. . . . \ Vassilii Khachaturov (25 Feb 2007)
. . . \ Lothar Ketterer (25 Feb 2007)
. . . . \ Dr. Nikolaus Klepp (25 Feb 2007)
. . . . \ korozion (25 Feb 2007)
. . . \ Alexander Klauer (25 Feb 2007)
. . . \ Emanuele Rocca (25 Feb 2007)
. \ Ludo (25 Feb 2007)
. . \ Sam Couter (25 Feb 2007)

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Subject:	Re: halted firewalls
Group:	Debian-security
From:	Emanuele Rocca
Date:	25 Feb 2007

* Ludo <ludo.aelbrecht>, [2007-02-25 1:07 +0100]:
> I'm actually not doing this for the improved security in ithis
> particular case. As this is a home LAN, I don't have tons of
> room/pc's. So the gateway in this case is just another pc, and using
> this idea I wouldn't have to boot this pc for no other reason than
> "gatewaying". So it's mostly to avoid running the gateway, because of
> the added noise, etc.

If what you want is a GNU/Linux firewall you may think about buying a
NSLU2. It works pretty well with Debian, it's small, quite cheap and
silent.

http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/

ciao,
ema