On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 7:55 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > Piero Piutti wrote: > > On Monday 14 October 2002 21:08, Eric S. Dye wrote: > >>another good firewall program > >>that i use is the black ice program and of course norton sells a good one > >>as well. i wouldn't worry about broadcasting your I P address, but if you > >>do a lot of surfing, you should consider a firewall. i think Linux has a > >>built in firwall, doesn't it. > > > > if you still think that Black Ice Defender is a good firewall have a look > > at this website http://www.grc.com and see what results it had when > > tested. > > > > having BID installed on your windowz machine can be even worse that > > having no firewall at all (i.e. false sense of security). when you need a > > firewall, ZoneAlarm is the choice. > > I must heartliy disagree here. If you're going to be connected via DSL > or Cable connection the only prudent thing to do is errect a "real" > firewall. With the price of New PC's being in the moderate price range > of 500 - 700 dollars for a fair system, there are literally thousands of > "old" P1-90Mhz machines out there for the asking. Get hold of one and > make a real firewall. You can get a Gateway/firewall setup and > functioning well on a weekend and then not have to worry about whether > or not you're protected. You'll know! And for two real good reasons. > > 1) if you're intelligent enough to install and setup Linux, > you're more then able to setup an iptables firewall. To > the nicest iptables firewall I've seen is the one that > comes with Mandrake 9.0. Shorewall. Using this firewall > works best if your gateway/firewall machine is setup > with two nic cards. > 2) once you've got things setup and running you'll quickly > begin to see "how" things work and you'll appreciate > the total hands-on control this kind of setup affords > you, the user. > > Mark
If you have a *really* old spare computer, I recommend the LEAF-Bering distribution. It just about fits on 1 floppy and will run on a 386 with 8MB of memory. No hard drive is needed so it is virtually silent. It comes with shorewall firewall just like Mandrake 9.0 Sit it in the corner and forget about it. http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ derek
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