Hi Vishal- If you are using MS-Proxy, there are settings which allow u to disable incoming traffic. If you are using Squid on Linux, then u already have a full featured firewall sitting there!!!
What are u using currently? -Sam --- Alan Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Vishal Mukherjee wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I am a newbie and want a few suggestions and help? > > we are a small organization with around 15 > terminals. we are connected to > > the internet through a dialup connection to the > internet. > > One server serves us as a proxy server and all the > other computers on the > > network browse using a proxy server. My questions > are:- > > > > 1. Do we need a firewall? > > 2. which firewall will u gurus suggested? > > > > I would prefer a software firewall if suggested by > you all.. > > You should have a firewall of some sort. > > What OS is the proxy/dial up on? > > Are the addresses on your local network routable or > not? (192.168.x.x or > 10.x.x.x) > > If the addresses behind the proxy are not routable, > it is not as much of > an issue as long as the machine with the dial up is > not hacked. If it is, > they still have access to your network, just a slow > one. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a > quick shortcut to reply > Alan Olsen | to my mail, just hit the > ctrl, alt and del keys. > "All power is derived from the barrel of a gnu." - > Mao Tse Stallman > > _______________________________________________ > Firewalls mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
