Router/Firewall Recommendation

[Otto Haliburton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mike Burger
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 7:19 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Router/Firewall Recommendation
> 
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Mark Dadgar wrote:
> 
> > On Jun 22, 2004, at 11:48 AM, Otto Haliburton wrote:
> > > Just a thought, IMHO if you use a inksys router with nat then you do
> > > have a
> > > firewall, in fact a very effective hardware firewall.  I don't think
> > > you can
> > > get better performance and security at the same time.  I would put all
> > > my
> > > computers behind the linksys router and forget it.
> >
> > I agree.  You've got a purpose-built appliance device instead of a
> > general-use OS with all of it's myriad exploits.
> >
> > Just run the hardware firewall and forget about it.
> 
> Well, that really does depend on just what you want to do, and how in
> depth you want your firewalling to be.
> --

I'm not sure what you mean, but you can't get a better firewall than not
projecting the ip of the internal computer to the outside world.  Remember
'nat' there is no better or in depth firewalling.

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