[ale] Opinion Call: Firewalls for DSL

[Robert Hoffman]

Jeff,

I'm using a hard-drive install for FreeBSD.

Coyote does a good job of keeping ports closed. I scanned my gateway from home using nmap and found only port 25 open (and it wasn't accepting connections.)

-Rob


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Jeff Hubbs <Jhubbs at niit.com>
To: ale at ale.org
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 10:55:49 -0400 

>Robert -
>
>Thanks for your response and Ray, thanks for yours as well.
>
>I downloaded the Coyote distro and I think I can get somewhere with it.  Is
>your FreeBSD solution also a single-floppy deal or did you go forward from a
>regular on-hard-drive installation?  
>
>I haven't seen the answer to this on the Coyote Web site, but does it have a
>reasonable ipchains rule set in place when it's first brought up (I'm
>assuming it uses ipchains)?
>
>About the use of a 486:  This particular machine (an NEC Ready 433) has
>actually shown to be quite hardy.  I remove the HD and CD-ROM drives, it
>should be hardier still by virtue of less heat and less draw on the PS.  
>
>- Jeff
>

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