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Paul Robertson <prob@usa.net> wrote:
: Our office has a NT4 server and a network of 25 pc's. We use MS Proxy
: Server to allow internet access but for the moment we are not allowing
: any incoming traffic. I want to connect it to the internet via our
: ISDN connection. An industrial strength firewall is called for. I have
: priced commercial firewalls but they are quite expensive. I wondered
: whether we could run Apache as a firewall on a separate server under
: Linux..

Apache isn't a firewall - it's a web server.

The Linux kernel itself includes all you need to do the packet side of
firewalling - compile the relevent options in (which I'll happily list if you
like) and setup some rules using ipfwadm. 

However, you'll probably want to include proxying for web/ftp access, in which
case, Apache could be used. Personally, I'd prefer Squid since it's built from
the ground up as a proxy, not a web server. YMMV.

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