Re: Firewall or not ...
Marcin Jessa <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile,gmane.os.freebsd.questions |
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| Organization | YazzY.org |
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On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:05:36 +0200 Kiffin Gish <[email protected]> wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 on my Dell Inspiron 8200 using WiFi to > access the Internet. > > My question is what are the pros and cons of running a firewall on my > client, e.g. is it really necessary. > > I mean it's not like I am running Windows and have to bloat it with all > McAfee, Zonealarm ad infinitum -- or do I? > > Thanks alot in advance. The thumb rule is to disallow everything else than the services you want to be able to access from the outside. FreeBSD makes it easy with 3 firewalling systems avaliable and pretty decent scripts. Read /etc/defaults/rc.conf to find out more about the options to put to your /etc/rc.conf to enable and quickly configure your firewall. Cheers, Marcin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"