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* On 09/08/06 14:01 -0400, beno wrote:
| Hi;
| I'm updating my firewall and I've found a nifty how-to that recommends 
| using a BSD box in front of another box as your firewall, using the 
| first as a router and passing one NIC to the other box. Can't all that 
| be done from the same box?


Hi Beno,

If you don't mind exposing the one box to the hostile Internet, then the
answer is yes. Just block everything using the firewall on the same box.
What is your concept of a firewall, by the way?



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