On Tuesday 09 September 2003 01:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Three quick questions: >
> 3) I have a Linksys router between the Internet cloud and my home system. > Is there any use in my installing MNF (Multiple Net Firewall)? I'd like to > be notified of attempts to access my system, be able to see activity, etc, > and the linksys doesn't really show that (it has a log function, but it's > on the router itself and a bit of a pain to read). Would I derive any > benefit or is the Linksys already protecting me so the MNF would be > redundant and never activated? If you actually open ports up for some services on the router, a firewall on your machine can provide an extra layer of protection to stop intruders from taking advantage of the open port. If you want to actually see logs from your router/firewall, I think that you are stuck, it won't write those to a disk, that I know of, and if it did it probably wouldn't do that to a Linux formatted disk. Personally, I would not put my machine in the DMZ and remove one great layer of protection just to be able to see logs of people turned away, YMMV. I have installed and played around with a lot of intrustion detection software and stuff like portsentry which is pretty useless if you use a hardware firewall like a router, but if you were paranoid, you could use both to provide that extra layer of security. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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