Re: Firewall for use with cable modem?
Phillip Deackes wrote:
>
> I have spent much of the day getting more and more confused about
> firewalls and Linux. I am having a cable modem installed soon and want my
> system to be secure. I have only the one computer, and am running Woody.
I use Coyote Linux (http://www.coyotelinux.com/) on a floppy disk. I
run it in a beat-to-hell Packard Bell P60 with two Linksys PCI cards. I
/would/ say that you can easily pick up a similar machine for $50US, and
a home networking starter kit for about the same, but that's quite a
chunk of money to protect one computer.
Alternately, I'd recommend a Linksys Broadband Router (seen at Best Buy
last week for $80US), one with a single port. If you later decide to
get more PCs inside your firewall, and cost is still an issue, you could
still use the before-mentioned $50 home network kit and attach the
uplink port to the broadband router.
But that's just my $0.02US ;)
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