Re: The Dreaded Personal Firewall

Al Dykes wrote:
> In article <1138545332.557931.171910@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> General Specific <brad_pitstain@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >ohaya wrote:
> >> > So, it appears that the true role of a personal firewall would be to
> >> > control outgoing connections.
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Brad,
> >>
> >> The above is not totally the case. A NAT or any other kind of
> >> router/network firewall would protect your "inside" network at the
> >> "perimeter" of your inside network from traffic from the "outside"
> >> network, but that router or network firewall would not do anything to
> >> protect any machines on the inside network from any other machines on
> >> the inside network. If a threat ever got onto one of the machines on
> >> your inside network, it (the threat) would be free to attack any other
> >> machines on your inside network (remember Blaster?).
> >>
> >> That's one of the other main reasons for putting a firewall like Kereo
> >> or Sygate, or whatever, on the individual machines that are on your
> >> inside network, i.e., the per-machine firewall would prevent attack from
> >> other machines on your inside network.
> >>
> >
> >Someone recommended a Sonicwall for our network. Looks good except
> >that it only has a 5 port switch. I can set it up between our switch
> >and the internet, but I would prefer that it have 24 ports. That would
> >machines on the inside network from each other, wouldn't it?
> >
>
>
> Get yourself a seperate switch, like this one;
>
> http://www.netgear.com/products/details/FS524.php
>
>

I have a 24 port switch. The thread was about protecting from machine
to machine on the network.
Received on Tue Feb 7 20:58:13 2006