Re: firewall for a client
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 00:55 +0100, Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers wrote:
> On 2004-12-06 Víctor A. Ramos wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 18:30 +0100, Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers wrote:
> >> On 2004-12-06 Victor A. Ramos wrote:
> >>> My own computer connected to the Internet is a link which can be
> >>> attacked... that!s the part of the network that I pretend to
> >>> protect.
> >>
> >> Why do you believe that you need protection for something which is
> >> not there at all? You wrote that you don't have any service bound to
> >> the external interface. If that's true, then there's nothing that
> >> possibly could be attacked.
> >>
> >> Of course, your uplink could be flooded. However, a packet filter
> >> won't protect you from that kind of attack.
> >
> > Well... I suppose that you're kidding me...
>
> No.
Thanks
>
> > because there is no true in "you don't need firewalls, because you're
> > not running any server on your PC"...
>
> Then please enlighten me, because I cannot see any wrong in this for
> single hosts. Tell me, *how* is someone supposed to attack a computer
> that doesn't provide services.
One thing is that I don't want to provide any service... and other very
different is that I have programs which open ports... (i.e. mldonkey)
and this ports it could be attacked... that's what I want to prevent.
> > Even I know that, dude!
>
> AFAICS you know wrong.
DYSWIM? ;)
Regards
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