Re: SCO 5.0.7 AS FIREWALL

From: Jeff Liebermann (jeffl_at_comix.santa-cruz.ca.us)
Date: 05/25/05

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    Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 03:30:02 GMT

    On Tue, 24 May 2005 17:47:56 -0400, Tony Lawrence <foo@pcunix.com>
    wrote:

    >My purpose is simply to protect myself from my own stupidity (an
    >abundant supply of that is always stocked), though it does help that I
    >can upgrade or temporarily disable any component without worrying much
    >about what will happen. On the con side, when I do want to let
    >something in, it becomes a real PITA - but it should be, imho. I had
    >quite an argument about just this subject recently: see
    >http://aplawrence.com/Security/valuefirewalls.html

    Nice article. I consider a minimal hardware firewall to be a basic
    pre-requisite to being on the internet, even if the benifits are
    dubious. My office LAN is similar to yours. Double NAT firewall with
    the important office machines on the inside of the 2nd layer of
    firewalls. This mess is necessary because I'm constantly bringing
    customers virus and worm infected machines into the office and don't
    need them attacking my office servers. However, this is an unusual
    situation that I would not expect to be popular.

    Also, firwalls tend to have their own security issues. I suggest
    running the firewall tests at:
     http://www.pcflank.com/exploits.htm
    and see how well you do. My Linksys BEFW11S4v4 hangs on 2 of the
    tests. My Linksys WRT54gv1.1 with Sveasoft Alchemy firmware, passes
    all the tests. 

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