[asterisk-users] OT - Which rackable case for mini-ITX boards ?
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Mon Aug 25 14:00:21 CDT 2008
Personally I did look at building a firewall, but in the end left it to the big boys and have gone Cisco throughout the house. So Cisco router, firewall (ASA5505) and access point.
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----- "Alan Lord" <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Joseph L. Casale wrote:
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> <snip />
> Ahhh - good question; I was waiting for someone to ask... I haven't.
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> I only really needed a content filter for the younger members of my
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> family. When I upgraded "the boys'" computer to Edubuntu, I found a
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> great thread that helped me add Dan's Guardian and a proxy onto that
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> machine. (It runs as root and he can't do anything about it... Hee
> Heee.
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> Until he learns how to hack I guess. But by then I doubt I'll care
> much
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> about him looking at porn anyway).
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> As for a firewall, we have one built into my dsl router and it's quite
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> locked down. I have only one M$ PC left in the household (but not for
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> much longer) so other forms of protection are largely unnecessary
> today.
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> Of course that may change over time but for now I'm quite happy.
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> I should think a GUI like Firestarter (http://www.fs-security.com/)
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> would be my next port of call if/when I decide to add a firewall to my
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> server.
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> HTH and thanks for asking.
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> Al
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> PS - I did test Untangle on a VM and on a separate partition of my VIA
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> host as it now installs cleanly on Ubuntu servers using apt. But is
> was
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> just too much hassle to migrate the existing apps over to an Ubuntu
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> Server. If my OS hadn't been a roll-your-own I would have probably
> used it.
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