[Gllug] ADSL Linux

Tethys tet at accucard.com
Thu Dec 12 15:36:25 UTC 2002


John Hearns writes:

>Optimum, maybe. But the safest setup is:
>
>  +----------+      +-------------+      +----------+      +--------+
>  | Internet |----->|  Router     |-- -->| Firewall |----->| Switch |
>  +----------+      +-------------+      +----------+      +--------+

:-) Yep. When I worked for the MoD, we had an air gap between us and
the world. It does wonders for increasing overall system security.
Of course, it doesn't eliminate security risks, but it does reduce
them quite considerably!

Tet

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