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

[Craig White]

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