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Networking Tool
- Linux is a networking secret weapon!
- Router
- Firewall
- Proxy-server / IP Masq. (AKA Network Address Translation)
- Security watchdog
- Old 486 machines become useful again.
- A 486sx at 33MHz with 8MB of RAM is enough to be a useful router
for a network.
- Wide deployment
- With more and more people enjoying 24/7 connections, Linux
firewalls are becoming common to help protect against "script kiddies"
or real hackers using exploits.
- Simple to do: configure a full distribution or use a single-floppy
"kit".
- Security
- Security issues, when discovered, usually take less than 24 hours for
fixes to be issued.
- Closed-source response time to issues has been between two and three weeks.
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