Re: recommend hardware firewall

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Tim:
>> 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.).

Bill Davidsen:
> Only if you have things on a separate subnet. Otherwise node just talk
> to each other without the firewall getting involved.

If your router really is a router, then it controls all the traffic
going through it, and nothing can talk directly to each other unless it
permits it.

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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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