[WBEL-users] easy to use firewall?

[William Hooper]

Phil Barnett said:
[snip]
> What's
> the point of making a machine that has ports 23, 80,8080, 443, 137,138,139
> as it's only available ports and then putting a firewall in front of it
> that allows ports 23, 80,8080, 443, 137,138,139 to come through?

So when you screw up the mail server config (for example setting it to
listen on all interfaces instead of just localhost) you won't be exposing
it to the whole world.  Ditto with Samba, NFS, etc. on a multi-network
machine.

Layers of security are never a bad idea.

-- 
William Hooper