Re: [LUG] Firewall - Help Please

[Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Bell wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> At long last I've collected the components for a firewall box.  I shall be 
> using Ipcop (not the best, but the only one small enough to download via 
> 56K).  My question is: should I either disable the SuSE personal firewall 
> running on my desktop box before/after setting up said firewall, or just 
> leave it running?  I don't intend to have any other PC's networked in (for 
> the time being anyway) so I won't have any amber zone problem.
>
> TIA
>
> David Bell
> Hatherleigh, Devon

My go, my go...

Want a smoothwall CD ?? I can send you one if you like !! anyway..

As your internet will be protected by the smoothwall, you need not use 
any firewall on your workstation(s). If you wanted to be extra secure 
you could leave it enabled...

Anyhoo.. I am off to play on the 2Mb Satalite internet...

Neil

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