On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 10:22 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: > Is it better to run firewall through fedora 12 or through router or both A firewall at the router can stop things at the boundary, but depending on how it's implemented, may not stop things between clients within your LAN. That's probably not an issue at home, but would be at a more public LAN (school, office, cafe, etc.). Stopping unwanted traffic as close to the ISP side of your network as possible may be desirable. > Not having any problems just curious about protection strength How long is a piece of string? Well, when one thing stopping something has actually stopped it, the second firewall is redundant. But if one hasn't stopped something, the other may. But complex rules may interact between firewalls, and stop something you hadn't intended to. What's probably a more important question is: Do you know how to configure good firewall rules? -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
