On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 08:58:16AM -0500, Bill Carlson wrote:
: I've run a two firewall setup, it was no more troublesome than a single
: setup. The advantage is that an attacker would have to crack two boxes to
: get to the private LAN as opposed to one. In this case it would be three!
: 
: My external webserver is less important then my entire internal network.
: :)

Do you plan on keeping the same versions of software on both firewalls?
If there's a remotely exploitable hole in one, then cracking the second
firewall is trivial.  Layered firewalls are only really successful if 
they are *different*...

-- 
Jason Costomiris <><           |  Technologist, geek, human.
jcostom {at} jasons {dot} org  |  http://www.jasons.org/ 
          Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.



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