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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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