recommend hardware firewall

[Bill Davidsen]

Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 10:22 -0700, Michael Miles wrote:
>> Is it better to run firewall through fedora 12 or through router or both
> 
> A firewall at the router can stop things at the boundary, but depending
> on how it's implemented, may not stop things between clients within your
> LAN.  That's probably not an issue at home, but would be at a more
> public LAN (school, office, cafe, etc.).
> 
Only if you have things on a separate subnet. Otherwise node just talk to each 
other without the firewall getting involved.

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