Re: [LUG] Firewall - info and reviews

[Mike <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

G'day,

Its more that the more services you run on a firewall the more open you 
are to attacks.
IPCop removes everything that is not needed to that services that are 
not required on a firewall are not running there for an attacker has 
less to get a hold of.

IPCop also allows to run more than one PC behind it *easily*.

There are other specialist distributions around that do similar jobs.

Not that any of the above answers your question...
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On 12.09.2002 13:23 Paul Hewson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know of IpCop as a firewall, but wondered what there might be that
> could run
> on the machine it is protecting.   I think Firestarter (a Gnome
> project) can
> run on the same machine it is protecting.
>
> Whilst I can appreciate the advantages of IpCop as a minimalist
> machine, if
> you can't always guarantee a laptop (say) is working behind a firewall
> I was
> interested in what else might be available.   And particularly
> interested
> where there might be reviews and so on.
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul

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