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From: "Alex Bennee" <alex@bennee.com>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] Beginner
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 10:58:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-102215156912419@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-102214898810761@msgid-missing>

ewan said:
>
>> #Lan--Internal Firewall--- External firewall -- Internet
>>                         |
>>                         |
>>                    webserver
>
>
> what purpose does the internal firewall serve? just plug everything
> into one firewall and write rules accordingly

There is nothing wrong with having multiple layers of firewalls. It means
your haxor has several layers of security to beat - security through depth.

But you can just use iptables on your internal firewall as well. No point
learning new semantics :-)

Alex
www.bennee.com/~alex/


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-05-23 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-23 10:15 [LARTC] Beginner Jean Dee
2002-05-23 10:23 ` ewan
2002-05-23 10:58 ` Alex Bennee [this message]
2002-05-23 11:11 ` Rens Houben
2002-05-23 11:58 ` Greg Scott

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