New subject: [SLE] suse firewall on cd

19 Apr 2002

      Hi.

The personal firewall seems to need configuring because it asks for 
REJECT_ALL_INCOMING_CONNECTIONS If I put eth0 and eth1 there (our internet 
and local ethernet cards) once again nothing passes through. Can I just leave 
this blank and still be protected?

Thanks, Steve.

On Friday 19 April 2002 14:00, you wrote:
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** On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:43:08 +0200 steve   tossed
this note into the solar wind:
**Hi everyone
**
**I see that SuSE sell a firewall on cd for over $1000. What is the
difference **between this firewall and SuSE firewall2 that comes with 7.3?
Is the latter **an inferior product?
**
**Very confused!
None of the firewalls offered are inferior, just different types for
different user settings
Have you tried just selecting the "personal" firewall for a start? it
seems to protect things very nicely ( I've been *invisable* to some
intentional scans by various security folks  I know, using just the
personal" version.)
It requires no setup ,by which I mean, it's configured "out of the
box" and will protect you ( your lan etc) , as much as anything can do,
while you learn what you need to know to setup Firewall 2 If you need
it, Firewall2 is much more *user* ( i.e netadmin) configurable, so you
can pick and choose the various ports tprograms can use , or not use ..
etc.
I don't believe in the current internet climate that anyone should just
be surfing , emailing or anything else that requires a connection to the
internet w/o some sort of firewall . Whether its a commercial  product
or a "roll your own"
oh yes,
The firewall on a CD product is also something that comes preconfigured
, but it's advantages are no cracker or haxsor can tamper w/ the
firewall , ( neither can anyone who is already on your lan open any
ports that aren't "permitted") usually this is for a larger group than a
school lan.
Firewall2 isn't inferior , neither is the "personal" version, just
different for diferent jobs.
I have one SOHO that uses thepersonal version.. there are only a few
computers there and the group doesn't need any exotic settings. whereas,
another , larger company uses the FireWall2 product, but there are about
20 folks in that group  and some more configurations were required to
keep some computers ( and their users) inside the network from going out
onto the internet ...
hope this helps

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