Re: Firewall

[<da_alchemist yahoo com>]

This is more of a philosophical question that really
depends on the level of security, systems layout,
performance you want from your systems, etc.  Your
hardware firewall I assume only does packet filtering,
whereas if you want additional security for specific
apps or additional packets on your linux machine then
you would probably want to consider iptables for extra
packet filtering specific to your linux machine and
not the rest of your network, that your hardware
firewall would handle.  For your apps, you can look at
various proxy level filtering mechanisms.

Thanks.

--- Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com> wrote:
> techhead4life wrote:
> > Hello there
> > 
> > Newbie Here
> > 
> > Installing Linux7.3 for the first time as a server
> > 
> > I have a hardware firewall already, it is
> recommended that I install the
> > software firewall that linux comes with?
> > 
> > I just dont want to compromise the performance of
> the server and people not
> > getting through to my webserver.
> 
> You really only need one firewall.  Installing the
> Linux one won't
> hurt, but it sorta belongs in the department of
> redundancy department.
> 
> (snicker!  I've always wanted to use that in an
> email!)
>
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