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If you're looking to gain some protection for your network from Internet based threats you could look at Smoothwall Its a free linux based Open Source firewall www.smoothwall.org Steph Richard Brown wrote: > Hi > > I believe there are two approaches to building a local area network > (lan). The usual approach certainly when using xp etc is to build a > workgroup around a cluster of computers all talking to a > switch/hub/router. The second approach seems to be around a domain. > And it is this approach that I want to try to learn more about. > > What is it please and how does it work? Does it mean you create a > server and then all computers feed of that etc? The reason I am asking > is because we are about to purchase several new computers for work and > we want to speed the whole network up and also protect it more. All > the computers currently log in to a file server and also a database > server and I am wondering whether we could also route the internet > through the servers to provide additional protection to the network. > But we are also looking for speed improvements on accessing data from > the database and wonder whether this will help. > > Many thanks for the help. > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html