Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2008-06-23 at 21:41 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
Carlos, within the past couple of weeks someone in this forum stated that if one was using a modem/router, which has a firewall builtin, then it was not necessary to activate the firewall in Suse. Would this be the correct thing to do?
IMHO, no.
You can do that, many people do, specially windows users. My router came with the firewall disabled, by the way, so it's better not to assume that it is enabled. They usually use NAT, and that is also some protection.
But I feel much safer with all the internal machines having their firewalls enabled. If the router fails, I have a second line of defense. If one machine is compromised, the rest may remain safe.
It makes life a bit more complicated, but not much.
And it would be a real mistake for suse to disable the firewall by default: there is no way for them to know if the user's router is reliable or not. Maybe it has a wifi with a breakable configuration, for instance. I have heard many histories about such setups...
Thanks, it all makes sense not to shut down the firewall in suse. Ciao. -- If you don't succeed you run the risk of failure. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org