[oclug] a rooted system

[Strosberg, Bill]

Billy:

Hmm ... a quickly reloadable proxy/firewall box - sounds like a job for
E-Smith!  Dan's suggestion is very good, and he's too much of a gentleman to
self promote his company's product, but I have no such qualms.  Take a hard
look at E-Smith's  product - it's an exact fit for this situation.

I personally know a site using E-Smith's products for an extremely high
traffic web-related business with nothing but good things to say about them.

--
Bill Strosberg

> I would also suggest changing the network configuration to have some
> kind of "expendable" firewall box between your server and the 
> Internet.
> Some Linux box that does port-forwarding/proxying to relay requests to
> the servers on the inside. Something that if it gets compromised you
> can just nuke and reinstall in a matter of minutes.