[opensuse] Re: simple LAN

Robert Best wrote:
On Sunday 17 June 2007 13:16, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
As far as the ADSL Speedtouch it should suffice as a firewall for
you.
Really? Firewall software on the computers connected to the router are
superfluous?

Robert
Hi Robert,

well not directly superfluos. For instance, there could be situations,
where you want to protect a machine, e.g. a server from attacks that
come from your private internal network.

Otherwise, your speedtouch sort of "isolates" your private 192.168.x.x
network from the offical internet.

So if you trust your family members and as long as you are using Linux
;-))), I would indeed say that you do not need a firewall on each
machine, as long as your speedtouch serves as a firewall for your
internal network.

So it is not superfluous but it depends ;-))

kind regards
Eberhard

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