Re: firewalls and installation stuff....
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 12:21 +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Debian folks,
>
> [...]
> The broadband connection and my browser work fine.
>
> Would that have been enough to include and fire up some kind of firewall or
> do I need to install that separately?
>
> If so what firewall would you recommend and what aptitude command will fetch
> me it?
>
arno-iptables-firewall is a very simple one, it's in testing (I have it
installed on Sarge).
> How do I know that the firewall is on and working?
>
Visit this site:
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
You can check your ports and some other security stuff there.
> [...]
>
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