Re: [SLUG] iptables

From: patrick (patrick@llc.net)
Date: Tue May 01 2001 - 10:51:20 EDT


On Tuesday 01 May 2001 10:31 am, you wrote:
> patrick wrote:
> > thought i'd mention Mandrake 8.0 has firewall built in
> > it takes about 30 seconds to answer the questions and
> > its running
> > i have read some comments on mandrakes pages
> > how some guy cant even see the machine from the
> > internet. check it out
>
> [putting on my "professional network security guy" hat]
>
> The danger in having a firewall that "takes about 30 seconds" to
> configure is that you very likely have absolutely no idea what it's
> doing.
>
> I would VERY STRONGLY encourage you to learn up a bit about iptables and
> find out exactly how your machine has been configured.
>
> Knowledge is Power and you certainly don't want the crackers out there
> to have more power than you do when it comes to your own machine.
>
> [taking off my "professional network security guy" hat]

thank u for the adiice, actually i am not running a firewall
at the moment.



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