Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (636 mails)

[John Murphy <jfmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a cable Internet connection and run it through a Linksys router. This 
has NAT built in for protection. Of course through this I run DHCP to three 
other machines in a home network, 1 linux and 2 wins.  Is this good enough or 
do I need to setup a personal firewall besides. I have Suse 7.1 and don't 
have the personal firewall on as this is the way the auto setup did it 
through Yast.  If I do turn it on will this throw a monkey wrench into the 
something that is running fine now.  I'm a newbie at firewalls and the option 
of just having it done automatically seemed appealing. But I figured Yast has 
to be much brighter then me and it had to be a reason. I'm thinking because 
of the DHCP?

John.........
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