At 3:36 AM -0600 11/6/01, Charles K. Lee II wrote:

>I setup another computer with 2 NICs and it is running as a firewall and a
>gateway for my Win2K box.  It's running Debian (testing), and has been a
>reliable solution for me.
>
>I prefer this approach, as opposed to a hardware router, because it gives me
>greater control over what goes in, what goes out and what I can do.

[snip]

But isn't just a hardware firewall (like a Linysys) the preferred 
method  for just a single workstation?

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