On 05/10/2015 01:36 PM, Bob Williams wrote:
This is where my old brain finds it difficult to understand the concepts. The firewalls I'm talking about are on each machine in the house connected to the NAT router, which in turn is connected to the Internet. So from your last remark, they are all protected by the router, and do not need to be running separate software firewalls themselves? The router (Draytek Vigor 2830Vn) claims to have a 'firewall' inside it, but I have never changed the default settings.
I also understand that the process of 'Network Address Translation' causes rejection of any unsolicited packets from outside, which constitutes a sort of firewall. Are you saying I can rely on that?
I'm not familiar with that device but, generally, yes. You don't need firewalls on each computer, unless you're really worried about security. For most users, a firewall on each computer just gets in the way. The only computer I have that has it's own firewall is my notebook computer, which gets used in other locations, including on public WiFi. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org