Do I really need a firewall?

Tancredi · 06-22-2010, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by sparc86

Are you running any network service that you wouldn't want anyone "out" to have any kind of access to it?

If the answer is "no", then I don't see any reason to worry about firewalling.

Agreed here. Unless you are dealing with highly sensitive info, I wouldn't think you would need to worry about it. Save yourself the time.

skola · 06-22-2010, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by unSpawn

restrict, log and audit what traffic passes through instead of relying on what can turn out to be a SPOF.

YAA - yet another acronym

If I may ask.

"SPOF"

guesses: stateful, severely, sometime, scarcely, packet, poorly, partly, open, output, obscure, operating, folly, firewall

is what please?

unSpawn · 06-22-2010, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Tancredi

(..) I wouldn't think you would need to worry about it. Save yourself the time.

Go meditate on post #10.

unSpawn · 06-22-2010, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by skola

If I may ask. (..) "SPOF" (..) is what please?

Searching LQ helps, see: SPOF.

skola · 06-22-2010, 04:04 PM

aarrgghh! not even one right, like my lottery tickets...sometimes