Firewall or not ...
Paul Schmehl
pauls at utdallas.edu
Wed Sep 21 12:15:01 PDT 2005
--On Wednesday, September 21, 2005 21:05:36 +0200 Kiffin Gish
<kiffin at gish.demon.nl> wrote:
> I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 on my Dell Inspiron 8200 using WiFi to
> access the Internet.
>
> My question is what are the pros and cons of running a firewall on my
> client, e.g. is it really necessary.
>
> I mean it's not like I am running Windows and have to bloat it with all
> McAfee, Zonealarm ad infinitum -- or do I?
>
That depends entirely on how you've set the box up. If you have services
running that are binding to internet-addressable ports, then you *may* want
to firewall them off to minimize attack possibilities. E.g. you're running
ssh - so you restrict access to it through the firewall config to a limited
number of allowed external hosts.
Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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