Re: Firewall on FC3

Hi Terry and folks,

It´s not a appliance, I´ll do my box from scratch to sits between my servers and the rest of the internal net.

That´s my primary goal!! The second it´s to update my proxy/squid!!!

Thanks

Terry Linhardt wrote:

fedora wrote:

Hello,

I´m really considering to install a proxy/firewall on a FC3. It´s a good idea?! You guys already implement some like that!?

I´m really in doubt about that!!

Thanks

Iassa

First of all, could you talk a bit about your goals? Do you want to build a firewall "appliance" that sits between your network and the outside world? All traffic to and from the Internet would have to pass through this machine. OR, do you want to put firewalling features on individual client machines that also run other applications?

A firewall appliance can do a lot of nice things. You can control traffic in and out. You can select which ports to open or leave closed. You can do address translations, so the outside world can see only the IP address of your firewall machine.

I would suggest FC3 will do firewalling quite nicely. But, as I said, first give us a bit more information as to what you are trying to accomplish.

Thanks...Terry