On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 11:08:57PM -0600, Chewie wrote: > On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 07:13:25PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > > My "Mom & Pop" phone company had an insert in my latest phone bill > > that indicated they would be providing DSL service in the very near > > future. A friend of mine suggested that if I get the DSL service > > that I should set up a firewall to protect myself. > > You have a good friend! ;-) >
I too will in a near future get access to a DSL service. Excuse my ignorance, but is a firewall really necessary if I only got one computer? In the firewall HOWTO one can read that "A firewall in computers is a device that protects a private network from the public part (the internet as a whole)." Does that imply that a firewall is used to protect a private network rather than a single workstation? Hans Ekbrand.
