[Eug-lug] firewallls

[Michael Miller]

Jim,

The WRT54G should do firewalling and NAT (Network Address Translation)
for you just fine.

As Quentin pointed out firestarter is also available.  I would
recommend learning netfilter or using FWbuilder.

-Miller

On 7/24/07, Jim K <JimKahn12 at clearwire.net> wrote:
>     Under linux I was just using whatever might be on the clearwire
> modem. My laptop connects directly to the modem with nothing else on the
> connection.
>     I have a linksys WRT54G still in the box. Does it have a builtin
> firewall, such that if I connect to it by cable it would give some
> protection.
> Thank You Jim K
> PS I know it is stupid using a broadband connection without a firewall.
> Under windoze I do use firewall, AV, and Spybot  actively and run other
> products periodically every 20 - 50 hours of use.  And I update
> everything in the infrequent times I boot windoze.
> Michael Miller wrote:
> > Jim,
> >
> > What are you using for a firewall currently?  What is your network
> > setup I.E. how do you connect to the Internet?  What devices do you
> > have connected between your cable modem and or DSL modem or Clear Wire
> > modem?
> >
> > Depending on what your filtering policy and if you have a firewall
> > device or not.  You can use iptables on your Ubuntu machine as a host
> > based firewall.  along with my first question are you trying to
> > provide access to one or more hosts as well? or just your Ubuntu
> > machine?
> >
> > -MMiller
> >
> > On 7/24/07, Jim K <kjim9 at clearwire.net> wrote:
> >> I have 2 questions. I have a laptop running Ubuntu feisty fawn to access
> >> the internet for e-mail and surfing the net.
> >> 1) Does anyone have a favorite firewall that is easy to setup?
> >> 2) Does anyone have an easy to use gui application to control the
> >> daemons running?
> >>   I have had a major slowdown the last several days and now cannot
> >> access the internet under feisty.
> >> The last thing I installed was skype. There are a number of daemons I
> >> don't recognize and figure stop them and put up a firewall and see what
> >> happens before I do a reinstall.
> >> Jim K
> >> PS I am back to win doze.
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