Jim,
The WRT54G should do firewalling and NAT (Network Address Translation)
for you just fine.
As Quentin pointed out firestarter is also available. I would
recommend learning netfilter or using FWbuilder.
-Miller
On 7/24/07, Jim K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Under linux I was just using whatever might be on the clearwire
modem. My laptop connects directly to the modem with nothing else on the
connection.
I have a linksys WRT54G still in the box. Does it have a builtin
firewall, such that if I connect to it by cable it would give some
protection.
Thank You Jim K
PS I know it is stupid using a broadband connection without a firewall.
Under windoze I do use firewall, AV, and Spybot actively and run other
products periodically every 20 - 50 hours of use. And I update
everything in the infrequent times I boot windoze.
Michael Miller wrote:
> Jim,
>
> What are you using for a firewall currently? What is your network
> setup I.E. how do you connect to the Internet? What devices do you
> have connected between your cable modem and or DSL modem or Clear Wire
> modem?
>
> Depending on what your filtering policy and if you have a firewall
> device or not. You can use iptables on your Ubuntu machine as a host
> based firewall. along with my first question are you trying to
> provide access to one or more hosts as well? or just your Ubuntu
> machine?
>
> -MMiller
>
> On 7/24/07, Jim K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I have 2 questions. I have a laptop running Ubuntu feisty fawn to access
>> the internet for e-mail and surfing the net.
>> 1) Does anyone have a favorite firewall that is easy to setup?
>> 2) Does anyone have an easy to use gui application to control the
>> daemons running?
>> I have had a major slowdown the last several days and now cannot
>> access the internet under feisty.
>> The last thing I installed was skype. There are a number of daemons I
>> don't recognize and figure stop them and put up a firewall and see what
>> happens before I do a reinstall.
>> Jim K
>> PS I am back to win doze.
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