[ale] security question: firewall and dhcp

[mmillson at meritonlinesystems.com (Mike Millson)]

That's what I do. I don;' have a box on the LAN dedicated to dhcp. I
have iptables rules that only allow access from the internal LAN.

On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 18:37, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> I've personally never really had a problem with it (used it @ home for a while).
>  Just make sure that you specify which NIC dhcp should use.  From a pure
> security standpoint, though, I can see how it would be a bad idea ('ain't got
> nothin' on my firewall but my firewall').  Just my 2 cents.
> 
> Quoting miguel <miguelq at bellsouth.net>:
> 
> > hello ALERS!
> > 
> > i would like to get dhcp going for my internal LAN.currently i have a
> > rh9 box acting as a router/firewall. should i install dhcp there or is
> > it a bad idea...
> > 
> > tia
> > -miguel
> > 
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