Firewall question.

[Dre G.]

Thats completely up to you, While some think that you can never have to 
much security the truth of the matter is if you have a good security 
policy at your local gateway then opening things up a bit behind that can 
make life alot easier, I dont know how complex your local network is, if 
you arent going to need alot of different services and auth methods then 
just for the sake of security lock it DOWN!. But If your going to need to 
be a bit more flexible (like the rest of the world) and want to keep your 
sanity, opening things up a bit behind the headend node (or the gateway's) 
firewall is fine. You can contact me directly and I can share a bit of the 
setups I run on both the public and private side of the linuxjunkies.com 
network.

dre

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Greg Kedrovsky wrote:

> I'm working on trying to figure out how to get  a one-floppy
> router/firewall set up. I have a simple question: When I set up this
> firewall it will be between my LAN and the internet. So, do I still need
> to run firewall programs (iptables) on the machines connected to my LAN?
> 
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