This may be a silly question, but if you are using a broadband cable/dsl
router does that not work as a firewall? The one I have does not allow
for state-full packet filtering, but with port forwarding and other
various security options enabled could this replace having a firewall on
each desktop? I have 3 machines connecting through this router which
also links the internal network. 1 machine is running Windows XP Pro
with Zonealarm and the built in firewall up and running. The other is a
project gentoo box and my rig is a dual-boot winxpro and SuSE 8.1 box. I
have the suse firewall up and running on my box and I'm not sure if that
by itself is good enough. I want to get pure-ftp up and running on it
and I am concerned about my security.

- I am a lu$er and a LUGnut

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