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Topic: firewall, rc.firewall is robust?

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tuxmachine Offline

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Posted: June 21 2006,12:59

The rc.firewall included in mydsl,is comparable to windows firewall like zone alarm or norton personal firewall? is more being able and robust of windows firewalls?

JustoTech

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Posted: June 22 2006,01:09

Quote (tuxmachine @ June 21 2006,07:59)

The rc.firewall included in mydsl,is comparable to windows firewall like zone alarm or norton personal firewall? is more being able and robust of windows firewalls?

I've intentionally pissed people off and had my buddies try to hack me from inside my own network. So far no one has gotten past the rc.firewall and these guys have all been running linux for atleast 10 years.

So it seems pretty good to me.

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300c_pilot Offline

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Posted: June 22 2006,06:30

Its all in the config file, and making sure your system is up to date.
I use Linux to protect all of the Windows networks I manage. One client has over 100,000.00 in servers/pc's behind a free version of Redhat 9.0. with iptables, running on a junk server that is now 7 years old.

Linux is one of the few things out there that, "You get what you put into it, not what you buy."

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kerry

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Posted: June 22 2006,08:21

Do i need to setup? I just right clicked the desktop> rc.firwall and let it do it's thing. It said it was succesfull. Where is the config file? The whereis just points me to the /etc/rc0 thru-> rc6.