Firewall on FC3

[fedora]

Hi Terry and folks,

It´s not a appliance, I´ll do my box from scratch to sits between my 
servers and the rest of the internal net.

That´s my primary goal!! The second it´s to update my proxy/squid!!!

Thanks

Terry Linhardt wrote:

> fedora wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I´m really considering to install a proxy/firewall  on a FC3. It´s a 
>> good idea?! You guys already implement some like that!?
>>
>> I´m really in doubt about that!!
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Iassa
>>
> First of all, could you talk a bit about your goals? Do you want to 
> build a firewall "appliance" that sits between your network and the 
> outside world? All traffic to and from the Internet would have to pass 
> through this machine. OR, do you want to put firewalling features on 
> individual client machines that also run other applications?
>
> A firewall appliance can do a lot of nice things. You can control 
> traffic in and out. You can select which ports to open or leave 
> closed. You can do address translations, so the outside world can see 
> only the IP address of your firewall machine.
>
> I would suggest FC3 will do firewalling quite nicely. But, as I said, 
> first give us a bit more information as to what you are trying to 
> accomplish.
>
> Thanks...Terry
>