It's also generally a bad idea performance wise. The NAS Statefully 
inspecting it's own NAS traffic takes a fair amount of resources above 
what the file transfer itself takes in addition to adding latency...






Dinesh Nair wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:07:52 -0500, "Ron Carter" <wcarterjr at earthlink dot net>
> wrote:
> 
>> This was a killer find and I really what to use it.  What i really wish
>> we had was a verison of Monowall that has the FreeNAS application
>> intergrated into it as well so that you caould have a all in one type of
>> solution.  It would be really sweet to be able to a killer firewall with
>> stoarge that you could make accessable to you internal home clients. RC
> 
> as has been pointed out on this list before, this isn't really a good idea
> security-wise. 
>