From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jan 28 09:09:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA12194 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:09:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tritium.cchem.berkeley.edu (tritium.CChem.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.220.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA12181 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:09:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msinatra@uclink4.berkeley.edu) Received: from iridium (iridium.cchem.berkeley.edu [128.32.180.11]) by tritium.cchem.berkeley.edu (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA00579; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:07:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:07:14 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Sinatra X-Sender: msinatra@iridium.cchem.berkeley.edu To: Shawn Workman cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Migration to FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Distribution: ucb MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Shawn Workman wrote: > The machine we are currently using as a gateway is our main file server (not my > choice) it is a PII 400Mhz with 128 MB ram and a 9.1GB UW SCSI 3 drive running > NT 4.0. > > My boss is foolishly considering running our current file services on this > machine as well as a web server and a SMTP server for our site and a few others > that we are going to host on site. This is the same machine that all of our > sensitive company information is on. This is indeed quite foolish. Ignoring for the moment the FreeBSD vs. NT issue, it is seldom a good idea to put all of your eggs in one basket, especially a basket with as many holes in it as NT. What's even dumber is to put all of your eggs in one basket and *then* run a web server on it! You might as well put up a big banner that says "come crack our site and steal our sensitive company information." There is no question in my mind that your company would be better off separating the gateway and file-server machines. For your internal fileserver, you can use whatever OS you prefer, but for the gateway machine, FreeBSD is a really good choice, with its support for firewalling and packet filtering, plus SMTP (sendmail, qmail, whatever) and Apache. In that respect the Interjet might be a good idea. I have some nice real estate in Florida that I would be willing to sell to anyone who believes Microsoft's claim that NT can do everything. I don't believe that about *any* operating system, but with NT, that claim is really laughable. Michael Sinatra unix sysadmin college of chemistry uc berkeley To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message