Re: routers
From: Chris Comley (Chris_@spamdeath.kill.die.wizards.co.uk)
Date: 02/22/03
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From: Chris Comley <Chris_@spamdeath.kill.die.wizards.co.uk> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 17:25:13 +0000
The first rule when considering firewalls, is to sit down, and decide
what you want to protect yourself against.
If the answer is "everything", then the only option which will work
for you is to never connect to the internet!
If you're concerned about nasty people out there trying to break in to
your system via the internet connection, and if your only use of the
connectionis to "consume"< e.g. download files, browse, read email,
but not offer *any* services outwards, then a NAT router, pref one
which does NOT allow any "admin" access on the WAN port, is pretty
good.
If you're concerned about the possibility of data being send out onto
the net from inside your system either by a collegue doing something
he shouldn't or by a trojan which has infected one of your PCs, then
it won't help one whit.
If you are careful about viruses, keep your scanner software up
todate, etc. then you should be reasonably safe from trojans.Most
hardware firewalls in default config won't spot them anyway.
Then firewalls provide a much greater range of logging and monitoring
options.
It isn't as simple a question to answer as you probably hoped! :-)
"ching chong mong" <chin@ky.net> wrote:
>How hack proof is a NAT router hardware firewall?
>
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