Well I thought I would introduce myself to the list and ask a couple of
questions. I am a lawyer in ChCh and I have my office served by a Jetstream
connection through Paradise.net (great isp btw). Its great having a
permanent fast connection, I reach for Telecom whitepages online now, its
quicker than looking up the phone book!

I also get email more regularly, having my linux mailserver run fetchmail
as a daemon every 5 minutes on our 4 isp based email addresses and then
serve it up to my win machines via pop3. Next step is a domain name i
think.

Questions:

1. I am aware of the firewalling/pinhole features of the m10, but I have
heard the security/firewall features of the m10 described as "rudimentary"
or "basic". Is there anything wrong with the firewalling, it seems that if
it won't let anything in (other than what I allow through a pinhole) it
must be safe, but i seek more enlightened opinions!

2. How owuld one run a linux or freebsd firewall on the m10. Wouldn't you
 have to forward all ports through pinholes to the firewall machine and
let it do filtering etc? How do you forward all ports other than listing
each one?

I'm sure I'll have more questions after reading your answers.

Rgds

Nick Rout
Partner
Nick & Sue Rout
Barristers & Solicitors
PO Box 25-275
Christchurch, New Zealand

Ph +64 3 3798966
Fax +64 3 3798853
E-mail nickr@ihug.co.nz

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Received on Mon Feb 14 11:19:50 2000