Hopefully, next Spring, ADSL connection
Hopefully, next Spring, it will be possible locally, to get an ADSL connection. Is the SuSE Firewall, on my stand-alone PC sufficient protection, or, is it prudent to use another separate box, for Firewall ? thanks best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 13:05:45 +0000, pinto
Hopefully, next Spring, it will be possible locally, to get an ADSL connection.
Is the SuSE Firewall, on my stand-alone PC sufficient protection, or, is it prudent to use another separate box, for Firewall ?
... i've found suse-firewall to be more than sufficient -- /// Michael J. Tobler: motorcyclist, surfer, skydiver, \\\ \\\ and author: "Inside Linux", "C++ HowTo", "C++ Unleashed" /// If I had a plantation in Georgia and a home in Hell, I'd sell the plantation and go home. - Eugene P. Gallagher
SuSE's firewall seems to be pretty darn tight. I've checked it against a couple of websites that test firewalls and from their point of view, I don't exist on line. I'm not sufficiently technical to know how thorough those tests are. That said, they are somewhat reassuring... Best, Pete -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peter N. Spotts Science and technology correspondent | The Christian Science Monitor One Norway Street, Boston MA 02115 Office: 617-450-2449 | Office in Home: 508-520-3139 pspotts@alum.mit.edu | www.csmonitor.com | www.peterspotts.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
pinto wrote:
Hopefully, next Spring, it will be possible locally, to get an ADSL connection.
Is the SuSE Firewall, on my stand-alone PC sufficient protection, or, is it prudent to use another separate box, for Firewall ?
thanks
best wishes
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sent on Linux
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Let me make sure I understand your question. I believe you are saying that you currently have only one box which serves as your workstation as well as your firewall. Your question therefore is whether that is sufficient or should you have a dedicated box for the firewall and separate it from your workstation. If that is correct, I think it is recommended that you have a separate machine for the firewall. It does not take much of a machine to serve this purpose. I am using a PIII 400MHz, 6.4GB HD, 64 MB RAM (although the RAM is a little light) for this purpose. I bought it used for $100 US. However, I am far from an authority on this subject. I am new to it myself. D.C.
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 03:42 pm, Darrell Cormier wrote:
you currently have only one box which serves as your workstation as well as your firewall. Your question therefore is whether that is sufficient or should you have a dedicated box for the firewall and separate it from your workstation.
If that is correct, I think it is recommended that you have a separate machine for the firewall. It does not take much of a machine to serve this purpose. I am using a PIII 400MHz, 6.4GB HD, 64 MB RAM (although the RAM is a little light) for this purpose.
Thanks Darrell ~ Yes, this is the situation I guess, I had better get a separate machine for the firewall ~ thanks. -- best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 19:47:53 +0000, pinto
I guess, I had better get a separate machine for the firewall ~ thanks.
... remember too, that it depends what you're using your workstation for. if it's merely allowing you to surf the web, do email, and occassional document, the one-off build of a package, then a separate box might be overkill. if you're running a personal server and getting quite a few hits a day, and you're bulding a bunch of stuff all day long, and so on, then it might be important to offload some of that to another box. of course, if that's the case, you've probably got two or three boxes doing all this work, all behind a router with a firewall :)) -- /// Michael J. Tobler: motorcyclist, surfer, skydiver, \\\ \\\ and author: "Inside Linux", "C++ HowTo", "C++ Unleashed" /// As Zeus said to Narcissus, "Watch yourself."
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 01:05:45PM +0000, pinto45@aig.forthnet.gr wrote:
Hopefully, next Spring, it will be possible locally, to get an ADSL connection.
Is the SuSE Firewall, on my stand-alone PC sufficient protection, or, is it prudent to use another separate box, for Firewall ?
Properly set-up, SuSEfirewall should be good enough. However, I personally choose to have a separate machine running IPCop (www.ipcop.org) to isolate my home network from the outside world. This means that I can play about reinstalling OSs, etc. without worrying too much about whether I'm leaving a security hole open whilst I get it set up. -- David Smith Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com STMicroelectronics Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk Bristol, England GPG Key: 0xF13192F2
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