Sorry if I did not make myself clear, but the combination of Linux and Squid does make a good firewall. Squid with its Controls and Linux with its variety of features, including iptables/ipchains/netfilter.
-Sam --- Alan Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 __________________________________________________ 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
