Re: simple stand-alone firewall

2012-04-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:48:18 +0400, wlan wrote in message : > 2012/3/30 Russell L. Harris > > > * Russell L. Harris [120324 07:15]: > > > >From the standpoint of protection of a LAN (two or three > > > >machines) for > > > a home or home office... > > ... > > > Is there a good firewall applic

Re: simple stand-alone firewall

2012-03-30 Thread wlan
I think netfilter are better firewall, you can read documentation from iptables. It's really cool. =) 2012/3/30 Russell L. Harris > * Russell L. Harris [120324 07:15]: > > >From the standpoint of protection of a LAN (two or three machines) for > > a home or home office... > ... > > Is there a g

Re: simple stand-alone firewall

2012-03-30 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Russell L. Harris [120324 07:15]: > >From the standpoint of protection of a LAN (two or three machines) for > a home or home office... ... > Is there a good firewall application in Debian which provides a secure > default configuration? Or must I learn how to configure a firewall? I thank all

Re: simple stand-alone firewall

2012-03-27 Thread Curt
On 2012-03-24, Charles Kroeger wrote: > > You won't get a 'stealth' rating at grc. Shorewall seems to leave port 0 That's all hooey anyway, that "stealth" business, as if you're some kind of combat aircraft over an Iranian nuclear installation or something, prospect which must be attractive to th

Re: simple stand-alone firewall

2012-03-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 24 mar 12, 11:16:08, Charles Kroeger wrote: > > You won't get a 'stealth' rating at grc. Shorewall seems to leave port 0 > visible but closed. I don't know why this is but would be interested to know > if someone on this list knew the reason. Port 0? I haven't used Shorewall in a while, bu

Re: simple stand-alone firewall

2012-03-26 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:17:50 + Chris Davies wrote: > Russell L. Harris wrote: > > From the standpoint of protection of a LAN (two or three machines) > > for a home or home office, how effective is a firmware-based > > firewall/router in comparison with a software-based stand-alone > > firewa

Re: simple stand-alone firewall

2012-03-24 Thread Steven Jan Springl
On Saturday 24 Mar 2012 16:16:08 Charles Kroeger wrote: > > You won't get a 'stealth' rating at grc. Shorewall seems to leave port 0 > visible but closed. I don't know why this is but would be interested to > know if someone on this list knew the reason. > > What is the deal with port 0? I have

Re: simple stand-alone firewall

2012-03-24 Thread Charles Kroeger
>Is there a good firewall application in Debian which provides a secure >default configuration? Or must I learn how to configure a firewall? The package: 'arno-iptables-firewall' will do that. You will have to tell it how you're connecting (e.g. eth0) but after that it will configure a 'default'

Re: simple stand-alone firewall

2012-03-24 Thread Chris Davies
Russell L. Harris wrote: > From the standpoint of protection of a LAN (two or three machines) > for a home or home office, how effective is a firmware-based > firewall/router in comparison with a software-based stand-alone > firewall/router? Is either significantly better than the other? Firmwar

Re: simple stand-alone firewall

2012-03-24 Thread green
Russell L. Harris wrote at 2012-03-24 02:02 -0500: > Is there a good firewall application in Debian which provides a secure > default configuration? Or must I learn how to configure a firewall? Hopefully you are able to find something simple to use, but if you do learn how to configure a firewal

Re: simple stand-alone firewall

2012-03-24 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I use UFW as firewall on all computers at home. It's very easy to configure. UFW (package ufw) can be found from Debian repositories. For documentation see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW . There is also graphical user interface called GUFW

Re: simple stand-alone firewall

2012-03-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:02:42 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > From the standpoint of protection of a LAN (two or three machines) for > a home or home office, how effective is a firmware-based firewall/router > in comparison with a software-based stand-alone firewall/router? I'd say even the SP

simple stand-alone firewall

2012-03-24 Thread Russell L. Harris
>From the standpoint of protection of a LAN (two or three machines) for a home or home office, how effective is a firmware-based firewall/router in comparison with a software-based stand-alone firewall/router? Is either significantly better than the other? I am thinking in terms of devoting an ol