[ale] firewall paranoid?? (iptables+smoothwall)

[Jonathan Rickman]

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, miguel wrote:

> hello alers,
>
> i have a RH7.3 box as a router/firewall(iptables). i have been playing
> with smoothwall. would it be dumb
> to forward traffic from the RH7.3 box to the smoothwall
> box(ipchains/squid/snort) and then to my private
> network?

Absolutely not. Dual firewall setups are quite common in the corporate
world. Triple setups are not all that uncommon, but in a triple
firewall/twin DMZ setup, the border router usually acts as a firewall.
Mixing vendors (read: distros) is a good thing IMO.

--
Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net

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