Hi No worries... I have found that in my servers the default settings of SuSEfirewall are quite good. The main thing is to follow news that if there is some security issues with services that You have open to outside (ftp, http, ssh, pop, smtp etc..). If You don't use them, then disable those from inetd.conf and other places. Don't keep any unconfigured services! Others may disagree with me, but SuSEfirewall is "good enough" protection in the beginning.. Later on when You get more into Linux, You can write Your own iptables-script, and have everything as You like them to be. Jaska. Viestissä Tiistai 05 Maaliskuu 2002 23:55, Piet Roorda kirjoitti:
I have installed suse firewall 1&2 (suse 7.3) with masquerading other computer was shut off, and did a firewall test at www.grc.com my user name (they think), computername & workgroupname traceble the port testing result: port 113 ident: closed port 5000 Upnp: closed
should this be avoided, and if yes, How?
piet roorda