Re: DSL & Firewall

["Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 10:37:56PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> 
> 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

Well, I'll say this. I'm on a dial-up and I've been scanned and even had
the aforementioned rpc.statd buffer overflow attack tried on me.  So,
I'd say it's worth it.  If you don't run too many services, then
configuring it isn't too bad.

> "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?

Think of your single workstation as a mini private network ;)

-- 
#! /bin/sh
# ppp-address: What's my Internet Address for ppp0 ?
/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 2> /dev/null | grep 'inet addr:' | sed \
's=.*inet addr\:\([0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\).*=\1='