[Sheflug] Re: Firewalls for SuSE 9.0

[Richard Ibbotson <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon

> I've just moved to SuSE 9.0 and have so far been unable to find a
> firewall that will work.  I used Guarddog before on Mandrake 9.2
> but it doesn't work on SuSE 9.0.


These is the SuSE Firewall2 but a look through the authors comments 
show that he isn't all that confident about his own work.  There's a 
lot of holes in the latest update - he explains.

You should really have a separate firewall.   Most people do it that 
way.  Either a router or something like IP Cop.  Firewalls on 
workstations are easily hacked :)



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Richard
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