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>When you set up a Linux box on an existing LAN to link into the
Internet, you are potentially opening your entire LAN to the Internet -
and the hackers that reside there. Before you do this, I strongly urge
you to consult your network administrator and site security policy. If
your PPP connection to the Internet is used to successfully attack your
site, you will at the very least earn the intense anger of your fellow
users, network and system administrators. You may also find yourself in
very much more serious trouble!</P
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>Before you connect a LAN to the Internet, you should consider the
security implications of even a DYNAMIC connection - hence the earlier
reference to the O'Reilly "Building Internet Firewalls"!</P
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