Re: [newbie] Single Network Firewall setup

2002-02-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:54:32 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi guys > I finally convinced the supervisors in my university research group that > our windows machines are not very safe as they are...they are connected > to the net 24 hours a day with a couple of ports always open...and the > inf

Re: [newbie] Single Network Firewall setup

2002-02-20 Thread Brian Parish
If you have a spare low end Pentium machine and a couple of NICs lying around, you have liftoff. There are many firewall products you could use. I have found InteractiveBastille which comes with your Mandrake distro easy enough. Others have suggested that gShield is easier still. Basically the

[newbie] Single Network Firewall setup

2002-02-20 Thread maurizio . laudone
Hi guys I finally convinced the supervisors in my university research group that our windows machines are not very safe as they are...they are connected to the net 24 hours a day with a couple of ports always open...and the information on thos pc are quite important...I thought we could use the Ma