Re: [cobalt-users] how safe is it to connect a RaQ both on the internet and on the LAN?

[Marco Baurdoux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don't use your linux box to work as a firewall,
Yes it can do it, but there are other products on the market that can do it
so much better, such as filtering packets on diverse levels.


le 20.9.2001 20:40, Marc Smith à marxmyth@xxxxxxx a écrit :

> I've got a RaQ XTR and just like the RaQ 3 and 4 it has 2 ethernet
> connection.
> 
> How secure it is to have a connection on the private network and the other
> on the internet?
> 
> Is it possible to get in through the real IP and hack into the private
> network through the RaQ XTR?
> 
> What is the general advice?
> 
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