Re: [tlug] Debian Firewall

[Charles Muller <acmuller@example.com>]

Alain Hoang wrote

> 
> Redhat and Mandrake from what I've seen turn on a bunch of services by
> default that I question whether they should be running by default then 
> throw on the
> packet filtering firewall as a stopgap option which imo is band aid 
> security.
> 
> The Debian manual has some tasks for hardening your Debian installation
> here as well as finding some packages for installing a firewall with 
> some utilities that
> make the process easier.
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/index.en.html

Thanks. I'm going to spend some time digging through this manual.


Chuck