I do have a good number of PCs on the home network. Anyone have a good rule of thumb for setting up firewalls. I do have the built-in OS X firewall running. On the Beige I will be running Panther Server as soon as I can configure it to give an IP to the router. I thought it would be as easy as it was with the normal OS X, but it is substantially more difficult!!
Depends on how much protection you want. The built-in stuff in OS X is minimalistic (and OS X's natd performance is terrible).
Your NAT router contains a "natural" ip:port based firewall. Works fine for blocking inbound probes; more than ample to protect Macs currently.
If you want something more sophisticated, take a look at something like IPNetSentry, from Sustworks. It does packet sniffing and such, so you can detect inbound and outbound virus and worm activities.
Your PCs... Even with an external firewall, I'm starting to like the combination of a local firewall and anti-virus on each PC...
- Dan.
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