On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Sameer Anja wrote: > If you are using MS-Proxy, there are settings which > allow u to disable incoming traffic.
If the NT box is properly secured. (Most are not.) > If you are using Squid on Linux, then u already > have a full featured firewall sitting there!!! Squid does not a firewall make. (Squid is a web proxy.) IPTables or IPChains, however, used with Squid will probably do what he wants. (Especially if he needs NAT.) > > --- 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/ > -- [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
