Re: Recommended Firewalls

According to Chris Lale,
Clyde Wilson wrote:

I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly
good firewall?
Thanks for your time!

If you are talking about a personal firewall for your PC, have alook at
...

If you are talking about hardware firewall, most "broadband
router" devices provide DHCP/NAT which is adequate for most
home users. An unroutable IP address is provided to each
internal machine, and incoming packets are blocked unless they
are in response to a transaction initiated from inside.

These devices don't prevent spyware/viruses coming into machines
with stupid operating systems via stupid browsers accessing
hostile websites or stupid operating systems with e-mail clients
that auto-open hostile attachments, but that's a different matter
entirely- firewalls don't generally fix these issues.

I guess you should post more about what you are trying to
acheive.


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