Re: web server + router on the same box

scottnews@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I've started playing around with Linux and Apache lately and am
wondering if it would be secure to put a web server and wireless
router on the same box. Are there security risks? Is it more
conventional to put the router and server on their own boxes?

All wireless has their potential hazards and much depends on the settings you
select for your router, keep a high encryption (at least wpa) and allow
connections only from known MAC-addresses (it's not difficult to spoof a
MAC-address, but it still complicates it at least for script kiddies).

You can still limit the rights of those that are connected via the wireless
router, so they don't have access to any services on the webserver, you just
NAT them out to the net, easy to use tool would be FireStarter, which has an
easy GUI with which you can setup default rules (remember the GUI you don't
need to run more than the one time you configure the iptables rules).

I'll probably use Fedora Core and Apache. I'm not sure what router
application to use. Would you recommend the one that comes with
Fedora?

FireStarter is a good GUI to use to setup NAT.


I'll be using an old 500 MHz Dell Inspiron. I'll have to buy a
wireless NIC for the the router side. Any recommendation for a NIC
that has an antenna on a cable?

I would suggest a simple Access Point (AP) that you connect to a standard
network card, this way you don't have to hassle with wireless drivers.


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//Aho
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