> -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] 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. > Mike Burger > http://www.bubbanfriends.org > > Visit the Dog Pound II BBS > telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 > > To be notified of updates to the web site, visit > http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a > message to: > > site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > with a message of: > > subscribe > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
