[geeks] Fedora question regarding firewalls in general...

[Kurt Huhn]

On Mar 27, 2010, at 7:45 AM, Michael C. Vergallen wrote:

> I have a nagging question that I would like to find an answer to  
> namely I'm on a network from witch the ISP doesnB4t allow allow  
> incomming connections to my systems on regular ports. Ok that is  
> fine for me now comes the question. Due to the fact that the isp  
> does not allow incomming connections to my systems is a firewall on  
> the workstations neaded ? I.M.H.O not on the internal workstations  
> but I have one on my internal data server. Because the fedora  
> workstation has a built in firewall solution can I turn that damn  
> thing off or should I keep this running and have to worry about  
> extra maintenance on the workstationE e.i. making sure that the  
> ports the server relies on to do backups of data, syncing music &  
> video to the media-server and streaming files to the media-players  
> in the house, etc are open ?
>


I personally never attach a system of any kind to the Internet without  
either placing it behind a firewall or running a host-based firewall  
on it.  Most often I used a firewall at the ISP interface as Lionel  
said, and use that to protect the internal systems.


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Kurt Huhn
Renaissance Man, Malcontent, Oversized Ostrogoth