From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 26 6:40:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mip.co.za (puck.mip.co.za [209.212.106.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 957AE37B406 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 06:40:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from patrick (patrick.mip.co.za [10.3.13.181]) by mip.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA16931; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:38:29 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from patrick@mip.co.za) From: "Patrick O'Reilly" To: "Joseph" Cc: "Eric Lam" , Subject: RE: IPFW Rules Help Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:42:09 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: <3BD9551E.4050505@nicholasofmyra.org> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > > > > >Eric, if this server is not actually a firewall, but an FTP/HTTP/SMB/SSH > >server, then I would personally not worry about ipfw, but be sure to > >configure each of those services correctly, and make sure that > the box DOES > >NOT RESPOND to anything else. > > > The advice you gave is good, however, I, personally, still prefer to > configure the firewall rules. They help to catch configuration > errors/changes made by you and other authorized personnel. They help to > assure that a trojan cannot suddenly open a hole. They also allow you > to log suspicious network activity. > All true! Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message