At 02:55 PM 10/17/2002 -0400, you wrote:
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.Hell i hope that last one didn't send...
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
I meant to say only that i can't get SNF setup so far. Simple? Hm not as simple as a straight linux install so far :)
heh And i'm not stupid. But my (un)related question is: How do you determine if you need a gateway? Or a comp that acts as one as well as a firewall. I was reading MDK"s site for docs & it says (in my case from what i got) I don't need one. Someone care to enumerate clearer & more concise guidelines? Ty
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