[H-GEN] Smoothwall dialling problem

[Hilton Travis]

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Hi Jason,

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 10:29, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
> 
> Hilton Travis <Hilton at QuarkAV.com> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 07:51, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
> > > Would someone please tell me why a firewall for a home network would
> > > need a writable filesystem at all?
> > Logs,
> 
> Really?  I'd consider sending syslog messages to another host on the
> inside of the network.

Aahhh - of course - most home users have a spare PC set up as a logging
server...

> > web cache...
> 
> A firewall running squid?

... just like they have another spare PC to act as their web proxy.

SmoothWall was designed for a home user so they could be protected with
a stand alone firewall, NOT running on their Windows box - that's what
most home users worldwide use - Windows.  These users don't have spare
machines that they can use for a proxy, a dns server, a dhcp server, and
a firewall - they normally can scrape one machine up.  Hence SmoothWall.

See - it suits the purpose it was designed for.

If you HAVE spare machines floating around, I totally agree that the
firewall should ONLY be the firewall, and all other tasks should be run
on another machines(s) as appropriate.

But the vast majority of users do not fit in this category.

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