** Reply to message from "John Poltorak" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
on Fri, 11 May 2007 19:10:01 +0100
> I have had two OS/2 machines continuously connected to the internet for about
> seven years and can't say I am aware of any major problems of running
> without a firewall. One of them reached an uptime of around seven months
> and then it only needed a reboot because of a power cut.
Ah! OS/2 is fairly close to being a firewall - unless you have Win machines
online as well. I run with a firewall that shipped on the DSL router/modem/AP
I got when I went DSL. The box runs Linux and it is really easy to configure
iptables so that was a painless decision. Just to see what it was doing, I
configured a Linux box with the same rules and logging - amazing how much crap
it blocked out!
--
Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net>
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