[Wizard] Wizard grunt

[David Basden]

If what you're talking about is running the back of your ADSL
modem/bridge into the same switch fabric as your private network, yes
it's silly from a security point of view.

If you totally trust Telstra and your upstream DSL provider it's
not a problem, but it's still bad practice.

If you're running 802.1q from your switch to the Wizard with seperate
VLANs, it isn't quite as much of an issue (as long as your switch has no
security issues that could be compromised remotely, which unfortunately
hasn't always been the case even with major vendors), but if you try to
pull too much traffic through the Wizard you might have performance
issues.

David

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:17:13AM +0800, Garry wrote:
> I'd like to be able to use my Wizard as a gateway/mirror, with no X..
> I'd appreciate opinions on whether it has the grunt to do the job.. At
> this stage I'll stick with the stock 32M RAM.
> 
> Run psuedu interfaces (into a switch) for:
> 
> 	pppoe for the ADSL
> 	wireless ethernet IP range
> 	wired ethernet IP range
> 	low demand apache server - but offering local deb mirror access
> 	
> Of course it will run sshd to local and wireless, periodic rsync client
> sessions for the mirror and the usual other small things, like
> firewall/routing for the interfaces above..
> 
> The HDD is 40 gig, so I'll have a portable server.. 8^)==
> 
> Or is this psuedo interface idea really silly from a security and/or
> performance point of view? Appreciate experience/guesses..
> 
> Regards
> 
> Garry.
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> 
> "Rich" is when your software costs less than your pay cheque...
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