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#7 Re: Creating a Debian Firewall - A step-by-step tutorial Posted by CyberDog (64.102.xx.xx) on Tue 4 Oct 2005 at 14:08 Well there are two (partially related) reasons. First, if you notice, I had already mentioned this fact briefly in the DHCP alternative alert. :) More importantly though: 1) The tutorial is intended to be modular, so ideally one part shouldn't influence another part, and parts can be skipped based on the reader's needs. And assuming one is running DHCP but skipping the DNSMasq chapter, installing DNSMasq soley for DHCP may or may not make much sense. 2) Furthermore, the tutorial is less about "this is how it should be done" and more about "this is how it can be done." In that sense, I feel I'm doing the reader more of a service by covering a broader range of popular, available software. There's no doubt the regular DHCPD package is basically the standard, so I felt it was important to cover it to some degree. Now that both packages have exposure in the tutorial, the reader can make a more informed decision about what they want based on their own experience. Thanks for the feedback! - Matt

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