[ale] Good windows firewall ?

[Jonathan Glass]

> Any of the stock Linux firewalls will work for 'both Linux and Windows.'
>   Smoothwall, ipcop, Coyote...
>
> Depending on the services offered, you can get by with such a low end
> machine, but running things like snort along on the same box is going to
> require more hardware/memory.
>
> It really makes no sense to have firewall software running on 2+
> machines if they all have access via the same connection.  One firewall
> to protect them all. :)
>
> If you really want to get into it, get Bob Toxen's book and build your
> own. :)
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
> Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft
> _______________________________________________

Here I must disagree.  The more protection the better.  If you can run
firewall software on each of your client computers, and on the edge of the
network, then you are that much better off.  That's actually the focus of
my latest research paper, titled "The Penguin, The Demon, and The Onion:
Using Open Source Software to Create Defense in Depth for Information
Systems".  :)

Good luck to you.
-- 
Jonathan Glass
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