Re: firewall or securety software

2008-02-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-02-24 14:24:12, schrieb steef: got a working firewall in my router plus shorewall installed and working. on my machine together no problem at all. why? the more security the better i guess. hope this guess is right. BTW i was under attack about a year ago. this attack was countered

Re: firewall or securety software

2008-02-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 06:11:17PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, Do I need any securety or firewalls on my debian box? I am going through a router. Many routers have integrated firewall. Does yours? If I do what command line firewall or securety software can I use? Shorewall. Regards

Re: firewall or securety software

2008-02-24 Thread Haines Brown
I hope I may be allowed to expand a bit on the OP's question. What are the advantages of a hardware firewall over a firewall built into a router? Can one use both, or should the firewall in a router be disabled if there is a hardware firewall? If the OP finds that he has a firewall in his

Re: firewall or securety software

2008-02-24 Thread steef
Haines Brown wrote: I hope I may be allowed to expand a bit on the OP's question. What are the advantages of a hardware firewall over a firewall built into a router? Can one use both, or should the firewall in a router be disabled if there is a hardware firewall? If the OP finds that he

Re: firewall or securety software

2008-02-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 06:11:17PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: Do I need any securety or firewalls on my debian box? I am going through a router. If I do what command line firewall or securety software can I use? It depends. Do you have anything set to listen on outside interfaces? Watch

Re: firewall or securety software

2008-02-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 06:31:08AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: I hope I may be allowed to expand a bit on the OP's question. What are the advantages of a hardware firewall over a firewall built into a router? Can one use both, or should the firewall in a router be disabled if there is a

firewall or securety software

2008-02-23 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, Do I need any securety or firewalls on my debian box? I am going through a router. If I do what command line firewall or securety software can I use? Thanks, -- Daniel Dalton http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED