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:
** On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:43:08 +0200 steve <fsanta@arrakis.es> 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