On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 05:15:03PM +0100, Brian O'Donoghue wrote:
> Right now I have configured a Slackware Box as a DSL Gateway and firewall,
> that we may run Oracle and DB2 [not bad for a p120 80mb of ram]. The dilema
if i was the incoming admin i'd change the distro, but more importantly
i'd buy a new box. the more things you run on a firewall, the less
of a firewall it is. and since oracle is a closed source application,
i'd feel very insecure running that on a firewall.
kevin
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