Re: Firewalls (Was Re: What's a good Cable provider?)

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Author: Craig White
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Subject: Re: Firewalls (Was Re: What's a good Cable provider?)
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 22:36 -0700, Victor Odhner wrote:
> Jonathan Claxton wrote:
>
> >Just one little suggestion, get s firewall setup. I got one running IPCop in a separate
> >box between the cable modem and my home system, keeps all them nosy people out. :)
> >
> >
> Supposing one does not (yet) have a separate firewall in place between
> the PC and Cox.
> How exposed is a Bastille/psad-hardened desktop-usage box with virtually
> all services turned off?

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probably depends upon your firewall rules and the stuff allowed to pass
through...

iptables -L

and what you mean by 'virtually all services turned off' - lots of
wiggle room there

Security is about layers

Craig

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