Re: To masquerade or not?

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 04:30 PM 4/21/99 -0600, you wrote:

>	I've got a little network running here which will soon have a full
>time Internet connection. And what I'd like to know is if IP Masquerading
>is suitable for keepying my desktop fairly secure while still allowing me
>to immediately access the boxes which will be connected full-time without
>having to use my existing dialup connection? What I'm trying to achieve is
>a setup which will provide most of the safety of my dialup connection (its
>totally secure when not connected) while still allowing me to access the
>Internet via my new high-speed connection and to do this, that and the
>other thing on the other boxes pretty much like I now am on my own little
>private 192.168.x.x ethernet.

IPMasq is obviously less secure than no connection but if you can keep the
masquerading machine secure, I think you'll be happy with the level of
security.  So, the question boils down to whether you think you can keep
the gateway machine secure?
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