[ale] security question: firewall and dhcp

Eric Melo ericmelo at hackernetwork.com
Mon Jul 28 10:26:02 EDT 2003


there is no problem AT ALL using DHCP + FIREWAL.


[]'s Eric Melo



--- Mike Millson <mmillson at meritonlinesystems.com> wrote:
>That's what I do. I don;' have a box on the LAN dedicated to dhcp. I
>have iptables rules that only allow access from the internal LAN.
>
>On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 18:37, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
>> 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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