firewall

firewall question
For example, a simple firewall would have prevented one friend of mine from getting Code Red from an IIS server he didn't realize he had running; it also would have helped with the Plug&Play bugs that have been in recent versions of Windows. An obvious alternative tactic works better, namely use software designed,

Norton Firewall 2002
Leon Kyneur lkyn...@unitedip.net.au comp os linux security Hi, With firewalls it's usually best to block everything and only allow through what you require. Your firewall looks ok, adequate for your LAN I'm sure. I would be doing iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -P FORWARD DROP Rather than allow though.

Firewall
There are three conditions for a firewall port: Open Close Overwhelmed (DOS attack) There are three conditions for a public IP: present not present not responding If you put one firewall in front of another, then you expect traffic to pass from the first one to the second one, you have to enable the ports from one

VPN access to LAN using RRAS on W2K *behind* firewall?
And now the discussion move on to what exactly does a firewall do for you once it's closed the closed ports and freely passes open port traffic....and each firewall in a row does...the same thing. The difference is stateful packet inspection, integrated domain authentication based rules, activity logging of

The $4000 firewall
would an operating system count as a program? an in expenisve older computer running linux or *bsd configured to be a firewall would be the answer Black Ice Defender is a decent Netowk Intrusion Detector program for monitoring what traffic goes on between your computer and the internet.. but any program like that

Installed firewall-easy 0.30-1 (i386 all source)
Roberto Zini r.z...@strhold.it comp unix sco misc Terry Paterson wrote: Hi There, I have a little problem FTPing thru a firewall (running Firewall-1), Under DOS/Win or Openserver I can do the following : scobox:/network # ftp firewall.domain.com Connected to firewall.domain.com. 220 aftpd: Check Point FireWall-1

Firewall, Hardware or Software?
In Norton Firewall Eventlog I get the following (error) message: "No logged in Account. The present default action is to permit communications." In the first place, that particular message should only occur with NIS 2002 (v 4.0.x), not with NPF 2002. In what follows, I'm assuming that you're actually running NIS,

Checking FC2 Iptables firewall config for PPPoE-enabled Gateway
Installation report: ConSeal Frw (generated by INCTRL 3, version 3.01) Friday, December 4, 1998 07:58 PM Windows 95, version 4.10 Notification by Disk contents comparison Tracking: c:\ FILES AND DIRECTORIES ADDED: (21) c:\Signal9 c:\Signal9\FIREWALL c:\Signal9\FIREWALL\cable.FWR c:\Signal9\FIREWALL\DEFAULT.

Firewall
[Yes, I know you could use RAS filters on a Windows 2000 RAS server, but it's not a full featured firewall, and I think logging and alerting, which are essential to a firewall solution, are lacking.] Second, the PIX firewall does nothing to protect a roaming laptop from becoming infected and leaking documents,

Router config vs Firewall software
Carey Holzman Ca...@Budweiser.com alt windows-me @3MARY This is a competitive analysis of our product when stacked up against AtGuard, Conseal, and the soon-to-be-announced personal firewall products from Symantec/Norton, NAI, and others. Our product is a "next-generation" technology, and is the only product

Vragen of "Een Firewall" wel goed is ?
If so, is the syntax for editing rc.firewall any different than ipfw? No. rc.firewall is just a script to collect the commands for setting up the firewall. All of the commands it issues, regardless of how you configure it, are invocations of ipfw(8) anyway. The "client" vs "simple" distinction also confuses me a

rc.firewall script & natd on 4.1.1
list-iface-net and list-iface-ip use the 'C' locale when calling ifconfig in order to avoid localisation issues (Closes: #203992) * Fixed typo in description (Closes: #195770) * Modified lib/runfwscript so that not finding firewall support is no longer an error, since this prevents the package from being removed

Accepted firewall-easy 0.41-5 (all source)
Enrique C. ek...@hotmail.com microsoft public es windowsxp "...si es conveniente o no tener activado otro firewall además del de windows xp y..." No. No es conveniente tener activados dos firewalls a la vez. Se pelean entre ellos y te quedas inseguro frente a la red. Con el que incorpora Windows XP es suficiente

CBAC IOS Firewall problems
IMHO, if ports are blocked, and you are only opening up want you need to open up, a blocked port, whether blocked by the standard firewall or the ISA server firewall are both equally protected IMHO. IMHO don't "just" look at the firewall. Antivirus Patching AND Firewall Ensure that you are doing all three... if all

Help! Sonicwall SOHO2 firewall appliance
D0B96...@istop.com>, JF Mezei <jfme...@istop.com> writes: David Webb wrote: If you are providing a service to the rest of the world then the traffic just passes straight through the firewall. But with a firewall, you can provide many local services such as telnet, LPR/LPD etc whose intrinsic security isn't very

Internet Connection Firewall (ICF)
The notion of a personal firewall is impossible and silly on a system without, such as Windows 98. The purpose of a firewall is to prevent all unauthorized traffic, including traffic for naughty programs inside the firewall. That is impossible inside a single Windows box for two reasons.

Anyone now of a Freeware Firewall?
A "hardware firewall" is a box that performs only firewall and firewall-related functions. Namely, it is aa computer that runs firewall software on top of a minimal OS, and is not used for running other application software. The software and hardware, ideally, do not have any processes running other than those

Help with XP Firewall and WS_FTP LE
Anyway thanks Write direct or back to the group thanks Al McCarville Hi Al, Sorry to say, if you want a free firewall you'll have to make your own from source code around the web. I have 2 suggestions for you...1) Use WinPatrol (freeware) on my 'Security' page and at least you'll know when someone is messing with

Winboard and firewall
Don Kelloway dkello...@commodon.com comp security firewalls For simplistic discussion there are two primary types of firewalls. Proxy-based and SMLI-based. Each has pro's and con's when compared to the other. There are also what's referred to as 'hybrid' types of firewalls which combine the best of both

@Home Firewall Question
John Beardmore woo...@wookie.demon.co.uk comp os linux setup I'm trying to convert Mandrake 8.1 from a workstation that sits behind a firewall into a firewall and NAT router for a bunch of windows and linux boxes to access the Internet over a single ISDN line. So far I've managed to get it to recognise its ISDN