Re: pcflank.com was [LUG] Transplanting hard drives

[William Fidell <william@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> At the moment I'm behind the ISP's firewall plus a
> personal firewall on my machine. The ISP's one
> stealths all ports on it's own but I keep the personal
> firewall on as assurance against both incoming and
> outgoing traffic.

I am on Blueyonder and as such the modem doesn't have a firewall.  To 
protect my home network (2 XP boxes, 1 linux server and 1 linux laptop) 
I use IPCOP.  Basically, I went down to the computer graveyard shop in 
Plymouth (I forget the name) and got a £50 machine to install it on and 
a couple of network cards.  I already had a hub to contect the internal 
network.

Installation hit a few snags because I got mixed up which interface was 
green and which was red.  But it runs almost without fault, and since I 
have installed the latest version (1.4.0) without any faults.

I was a bit confused initialy setting it up, having only been used to 
windows application permission type firewalls but soon it makes a lot of 
sense.

It is also kind of scary viewing all the logs and seeing how many hits 
you get, but with snort on as well kind of interesting.

If anyone has used the new blue interface with the latest version I 
would be grateful to hear from them.

Wills



> This may have some bearing on the difference in
> results from pcflank's quick and advanced tests
> although I still suspect that this is just a sales
> ploy for the unwary.
>
> Keith
>
>
> Grant Sewell wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:39:21 +0000
> > David Bell wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> > > 81.x.170.x
> > >   
> >
> >
> > You really shouldn't put your Internet-visible IP address on a list 
> > quite so blatantly.  Not everyone that has access to this mailing list 
> > (bearing in mind that it is archived and publicly visible) will have 
> > scruples.
> >
> > Many routers will have firewalling facilities but not configure them 
> > by default.  Others will lock things down completely by default.  
> > Cisco is a good case for both... if you don't enable "access control 
> > lists" manually, then you have no firewall.  Once enabled, if you 
> > don't configure it manually then it's completely locked down.
> >
> > If you have a "personal" firewall running, and yours is the only 
> > machine that connects to the Internet through this router, then it 
> > shouldn't actually matter if the router's firewall is off.
> >
> > Grant.
> >  
>
>
>
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