Topic: Profile:"Server only with firewall enabled"

[F.Briffod]

In the "Server only" mode, the server is assumed to be behind a firewall.

I think that it could be good to add an additional profile called, for example, "Server only with firewall enabled" or "Secure Server". This mode could be used with only one Ethernet adapter and have the same features than the "Server-only" with security features of "Server and gateway".

This machine could be integrated on an existing local network and used as "Server-only". But, in case of an existing gateway/firewall with bad or insufficient configuration on the local network, this machine could be consider as "sure" if an additional firewall is enabled on this machine!

What do you think of this?!

Thanks...

 F.Briffod

[Robert Boerner]

Whoa, I was just looking at the same thing yesterday. I was carefully re-reading the documentation and saw not that in Server-Only mode, the machine "trusts" the local network (in this case its direct connection to the internet). I think a secure server only would be great especially for ISPs, or for individual colocation.

Just my 2c.