On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:58:09PM -0600, Rich Adamson wrote: > That's a crack of crap sold by the marketing (not sales) people selling > firewalls. "If" you know what you're doing, one can very easily secure any > linux system to function on the Internet (etc) without a firewall. It all > depends on your level of knowledge/skills on how to disable those items > that are not really needed in your environment. Start with a 'netstat -a' > to identify those ports that are listening, and shut those items down that > you don't want exposed.
netstat -lutp is more efficient than a simple netstat -a. RTFM netstat. You could also write your own iptables script and optimize it for low latency. In fact, I bet there are enough such scripts rolling around the 'net. Even I wrote one. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
