Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 11:39:00 05/16/02
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On May 16, 2002 at 12:52:31, Jon Dart wrote: >On May 16, 2002 at 10:57:57, Terry McCracken wrote: > >>On May 16, 2002 at 10:27:05, Jon Dart wrote: > >> >>Next I plan to buy Norton's Personal Firewall, stop most problems before the >>need of my virus protection. > >Personally I don't trust Windows-based firewall s/w. I run a separate box that's >only a firewall system (runs OpenBSD, but you could use something else). It has >two network cards and refuses all incoming connections from the card that serves >the Internet side of things. Almost nothing runs on the firewall box itself the >firewall software and SSH (secure replacement for telnet). This is inherently >better than running firewall software on the very system you are trying to >protect. If you don't want to maintain this kind of system, you can get an >equivalent preconfigured box from vendors like Checkpoint, but they're kind of >expensive. > >This is orthogonal to virus protection: its purpose is to stop hackers who wnat >to break into your system through the network. > >--Jon Jon, may I ask a question about this topic? I have a Linksys cable router (BEFSR41) that connects my computers to the cable modem. I've heard that it's an "OK" firewall as is, but would be a very good firewall if you configure it a certain way. What would I need to do?
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