According to Chris Lale, > Clyde Wilson wrote: > > >I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly > >good firewall? > >Thanks for your time! > > If you are talking about a personal firewall for your PC, have alook at ...
If you are talking about hardware firewall, most "broadband router" devices provide DHCP/NAT which is adequate for most home users. An unroutable IP address is provided to each internal machine, and incoming packets are blocked unless they are in response to a transaction initiated from inside. These devices don't prevent spyware/viruses coming into machines with stupid operating systems via stupid browsers accessing hostile websites or stupid operating systems with e-mail clients that auto-open hostile attachments, but that's a different matter entirely- firewalls don't generally fix these issues. I guess you should post more about what you are trying to acheive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]