Re: lprng for a home computer
> So I guess I'm asking what sort of advantages will I gain if I do run
> a firewall on a personal machine.
some sorta wrong.
you have to know that linux or, sort of things like BSD, or if you are
rich, cp firewall, or cisco ios, or sonicwall, or any appliance,
have much better TCP stack, or IP stack, or
networking code, which handles things much better than windows
or any non-dedicated host.
personally i would not recommand debian for such dedicated firewall,
rather, i would recommand a self-built diskette or, worse or better,
openbsd, or if you are that rich, consider a real hardware firewall.. :)
p.s. plx do not start religous issue here.. this msg is not intended to
start
a holy war (tm).
--
vivi la PERLa loca... :)
question: do spanish support hackish verbalization, noun-ization,
post-modern-ed, or so?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marshal Wong" <a452640950@h9.dion.ne.jp>
To: "Philipp Lehman" <lehman@gmx.net>
Cc: "Debian User" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 1:06 AM
Subject: Re: lprng for a home computer
> Philipp Lehman <lehman@gmx.net> writes:
>
> >
> > I can't help you with your lprng question, but a firewall actually
> > makes sense even on a stand-alone workstation or laptop. You can
> > filter in the input chain just like you'd do on a dedicated firewall
> > host.
>
> I'm not an expert on firewalls, but if someone wanted to bring your
> computer to a grinding halt, i.e. DoS, they could just send a whole
> crap of packets, and firewall or no, the processor will have to spend
> all it's cycles dealing with these packets. If course, I guess it
> would happen if you didn't have a firewall too, wouldn't it?
>
>
> thanks.
>
> Marshal
>
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