[LUNI] Making a private network somewhat public.

[Samir Faci]

I kind of presumed some form of firewall/router already.  but yeah.. pick
one up if you dont already have one.



On 12/11/07, Tom Printy <tprinty at mail.edisonave.net> wrote:
>
> It is possible but if you were to use some type of firewall then this
> helps reduce the likely hood of that happening. A 50.00 linksys firewall
> should offer you decent protection.
>
> -Tom
>
>
> On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 16:19 -0600, Richard Reina wrote:
> > If I allow one machine that is already connected to the internet (
> behind a
> > router of course) to stay connected to my LAN.  Couldn't my LAN still be
> > hacked through that machine (the one that is connected through the
> > internet).  Is this likely?
> >
> > On Dec 11, 2007 1:47 PM, Tom Printy <tprinty at mail.edisonave.net> wrote:
> >
> > > What about using anther system that has internet access to generate
> the
> > > report. You can setup MySQL to only allow this system and the 7 others
> > > to access the DB. The report system would hit the MySQL instance and
> > > then be allowed to send out the email reports. You should still
> consider
> > > some type of hardware based firewall or turning ip an iptables based
> > > firewall on the box that will connect to the Internet.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 13:26 -0600, Richard Reina wrote:
> > > > I have a small linux LAN (7 pcs) that runs a homemade database
> > > application
> > > > (perl mysql).  They've had little if any reason to need to be
> connected
> > > to
> > > > the internet and due to my lack of prowess as a system admin and to
> the
> > > fact
> > > > that any loss of data or interuption would be very disruptive, I
> have
> > > > elected to keep it that way.  However, there is an increasing need
> for
> > > me to
> > > > be able to send reports that are generated by the application via
> email
> > > --
> > > > without me having to go to another computer that is connected to the
> > > > internet and retype the report.
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone give me some suggestions on the most secure way to allow
> > > access
> > > > to sending emails and the level of risk associated with doing so.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any ideas.
> > > >
> > > > Richard
> > >
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