<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Derek & Cindi Cass <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cass@casscoenterprises.com">cass@casscoenterprises.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I personally use it as my firewall,<br>
email server (IMAP with popfetch to my various providers), file server, and<br>
dhcp server. <br><br></blockquote><div><br>I don't want to tell you how to run your network and it may not be that big of a deal for a residential situation, but it's typically not a great idea to run your firewall and your file server on the same machine. As long as everything is set up exactly correctly you should be fine, but it only takes one little mistake in firewall rules to suddenly have all your files exposed to the outside world.<br>
<br>If those servers are truely free and run on any old hardware it should be fairly simple to run one just as a firewall and a second one, inside the firewall, for your other services. <br><br>Anyway, as I said, it may not be a big deal for your current network, but I wanted to throw that out there for your benefit as well as for anyone else who may see this thread.<br>
<br>Brad<br><br></div></div>