25 May
2004
25 May
'04
23:20
The Monday 2004-05-24 at 17:49 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
Nonsense.
If you don't have a ton of un-needed services running (e.g. ports open) there is really very little risk. After all, most hardware firewalls are nothing but unix/linux burned into a chipset.
This isn't Windows Xp, its Linux. Its what firewalls are made of.
I have to disagree. Running SuSE Linux with service "susefirewall" stopped while connected to the Internet, is not wise; specially a newly installed machine, still with the configuration not finished, as is the case in point of this thread. I'm not talking of independent hardware firewalls. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson