With all these thread on "hackers" and "hacking"....

[Hyperblaze]

I'm wondering what kind of firewall you guys have?

<--- i use shorewall on my gentoo box.

 

[hevnsnt]

http://www.smoothwall.org

your welcome

 

[Lonyo]

I have a router (Belkin) and ZA.

 

[FoBoT]

i use a combination

a firewall on my router (linux box) and XP SP2 firewall on each windows PC

 

[Qwest]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
i use a combination

a hardware firewall on my router(linux box) and XP SP2 firewall on each windows PC

router and Norton

 

[Gravity]

Pix by sysco.

Not impenatrable but would consume a great deal of hack time to get in.

Also a sonicwall which does dhcp and content filtering.

 

[hevnsnt]

routers do not equal firewalls

 

[slightlyhuman]

i'm going to be honest, i don't have any software firewall and have no idea if my router has one built-in. i'm thinking it does being a microsoft router.

i'm a total network noob with this crap

 

[KeyserSoze]

I have the WRT54G with updated Sveasoft firmware. Security scans that I've run on a few places on the web say that I'm ok.

I don't know tho, you never know with these freaking genius idiots that want to get you, they always will if determined enough.




KeyserSoze

 

[neonerd]

router + windows xp sp2

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: hevnsnt
routers do not equal firewalls

no they don't...but generally, if it's a decent quality router, it has a firewall built in.

 

[DaFinn]

I have a d-link router w. firewall connected to a smoothwall computer which then shares connection to my other computers...

EDIT: And my other computers run XP w. built in firewall...

This is pretty foolproof, I can't even access my own network

 

[aux]

unpatched box with no firewall




j/k

 

[FoBoT]

related question:

does anybody ever setup honeypots?

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

WRT54GS w/ custom firmware

 

[KeyserSoze]

Originally posted by: DP
i'm going to be honest, i don't have any software firewall and have no idea if my router has one built-in. i'm thinking it does being a microsoft router.

i'm a total network noob with this crap

What's your router model number...and umm...IP address...haha, kidding. I couldn't do crap even if I tried. But what router do you got?!?




KeyserSoze

 

[omniviper]

bah, all your firewalls are too commericalized. try sygate firewall. its a higher kind of it.

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: DP
i'm going to be honest, i don't have any software firewall and have no idea if my router has one built-in. i'm thinking it does being a microsoft router.

i'm a total network noob with this crap

https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

Go there to see what ports you have open to the internet.

Quite useful to see what security vulnerabilities you might have!

Just don't panic if you see ports you are actually using being open.

for example, i use 8 ports on my linux box, so 8 of them are either open or in stealth mode

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: DaFinn
I have a d-link router w. firewall connected to a smoothwall computer which then shares connection to my other computers...

EDIT: And my other computers run XP w. built in firewall...

This is pretty foolproof, I can't even access my own network

you could if you had the right routing and iptables rules

 

[jfall]

I used smoothwall for a while, until my firewall went on fire. Just using my linksys router at present.

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: omniviper
bah, all your firewalls are too commericalized. try sygate firewall. its a higher kind of it.

but but but....that doesn't work in linux or unix.....

 

[ArjSiv]

Behind an Airport Express which is behind a Linksys wired router.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: Hyperblaze

Originally posted by: DP
i'm going to be honest, i don't have any software firewall and have no idea if my router has one built-in. i'm thinking it does being a microsoft router.

i'm a total network noob with this crap

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2">https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2</a>

Go there to see what ports you have open to the internet.

Quite useful to see what security vulnerabilities you might have!

Just don't panic if you see ports you are actually using being open.

for example, i use 8 ports on my linux box, so 8 of them are either open or in stealth mode

Everything was stealthed on all the 4 scans I ran (the top 4 using their settings).

 

[FoBoT]

BTW , don't use any info from grc.com, that guy, Steve Gibson is a TOTAL MORON

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: hevnsnt
routers do not equal firewalls

Oh man i wanna hear your exaplanation for the statement above...