Re: how deep do i need to dive ?

From: ghaze (g_haze_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/27/04

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    On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 10:34:39 -0600
    Beowulf <beowulf@nowhere.net> wrote:

    > Do I really need to shell out $60 for those thick books on firewalling and
    > hackproofing my home PC? I really would not rather take the time and
    > energy for that if not needed. I just want my home PC to be secure --
    > running Mandrake Linux 9.2 (soon 10.x) with cable modem. Will be running
    > SSH server occassionally. Will just using the point and click
    > security firewall settings in the Mandrake Control Control Center suffice,
    > or perhaps installing some firewall open source app like GuardDog suffice?

    You could spend that 60 bucks(or less)on a hardware router like the linksys
    BEFRS41 that has a built-in firewall and provides nat routing.Plug-n-Play.
    Config time----15mins
    I've used the mandrake firewall before.It uses Shorewall
    http://www.shorewall.net/
    The docs are good,it's easy to configure using a text editor.There's no gui.
    If you go that route,check out the docs above.You might want to
    change the default config,but it's pretty secure out of the box.
    sshd supports /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/host.deny
    You can filter access by ip easily.

    I'm like Vilmos "I, personally, I always do everything the hard way and try
    to understand how things work." Without education,there's no security.

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