[ale] security question: firewall and dhcp

Nathan J. Underwood nathan.underwood at cybertechcafe.net
Thu Jul 24 18:37:50 EDT 2003


I've personally never really had a problem with it (used it @ home for a while).
 Just make sure that you specify which NIC dhcp should use.  From a pure
security standpoint, though, I can see how it would be a bad idea ('ain't got
nothin' on my firewall but my firewall').  Just my 2 cents.

Quoting miguel <miguelq at bellsouth.net>:

> hello ALERS!
> 
> i would like to get dhcp going for my internal LAN.currently i have a
> rh9 box acting as a router/firewall. should i install dhcp there or is
> it a bad idea...
> 
> tia
> -miguel
> 
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