Re: [PLUG] fire wall question(s)

[Darxus@chaosreigns.com]

On 02/26, Jon Galt wrote:
> Thanks for all the responses to my questions.  I want to emphasize that
> the web server scenario proposed by my friend does not involve a firewall.
> I always advocate firewalls (and not the so-called software firewalls,
> either), but my friend is proposing just a single computer hooked directly
> to a DSL connection with no other local computers and no firewall.  With
> that single computer running Linux with Apache listening only to port 80
> (no other ports being listened to), is there any advantage to adding a
> firewall between it and the DSL connection?  I always lean towards having
> a dedicated firewall, but my friend needs convincing.

Oh, in that case, running ipchains/iptables on that one machine would be
fine.  Running a dedicated firewall for one box that is fully capable of
running the exact same firewalling software itself would be silly.

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