Re: Newie questions about security
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:51:11 -0800
Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:
> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 01:21:46PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> >>
> >> Firestarter and other Linux based firewalls are when you want to build a
> >> firewall for your network. You cannot build a firewall for just the
> >> computer you want to firewall: Firewalls, by nature, must be on
> >> dedicated
> >> hardware to work. Thus, ZoneAlarm, Kerio, BlackICE, Windows Firewall,
> >> etc, are guilty of false advertising at best, and gross misrepresentation
> >> at worst.
I may be misunderstanding Paul's point, but the Shorewall documentation
has an entire page [0], titled "Standalone firewall", explaining how to
set up Shorewall as a firewall on a standalone system.
Celejar
[0] http://www.shorewall.net/standalone.htm
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