Firewall question

[Ffactor]

Doing some research on firewalls for personal computers. Anybody know any good online resources?

Thanks!

 

[WODIN]

Get Black Ice or Zone Alarm. They're both pretty good for personal use.

 

[hooch]

Zone Alarm is Free!!

Get it here.....

http://cws.internet.com/lannet.html

 

[Ffactor]

Actually looking for literature as to why we should get the firewalls, how it works etc. etc.

 

[the nature boy]

what do you need a firewall for? what is so important on your PC that you need a firewall? just curious. oh, and whats' you IP address?

 

[Ffactor]

It's for a paper I have to do for my MBA class, idiot!

 

[the nature boy]

you're donig a research paper on personal computer firewalls? what are you in the masters program at Subway University?

 

[Ffactor]

It's for this stupid information systems class, we have to do a 15 minute presentation on a topic of interest. Be a homie and gimme some idears?

 

[Austrian]

http://netweb.usc.edu/cs558/mahesh.ppt

 

[XBiker]

www.google.com

The inability of people to search on their own still amazes me...

 

[Austrian]

more refs:

Stateful Firewalls
http://www-900.ibm.com/developerWorks/cn/education/linux/l-fw/tutorial_eng/l-fw-4-1.shtml
http://www.sapphire.net/docs/stateful inspection comp white paper.pdf

Application Level Gateways
http://www2.rad.com/networks/1997/firewall/FwTutorial/link4.htm
http://www.netbook.cs.purdue.edu/othrpags/qanda255.htm
http://img.cmpnet.com/nc/1405/graphics/1405f3_file.pdf
Packet Filters
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#PF
IPChains and IPTables
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.html
http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1769/sam0112a/0112a.htm
http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO//packet-filtering-HOWTO.html
Firewall Basics
“Firewalls and Internet Security”, Cheswick and Bellovin.
http://www.firewall-software.com/firewall_faqs/firewallqa.pdf
http://www.interhack.net/pubs/fwfaq.html
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-10/node30.html
Distributed Firewalls
http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/1999-11/features/firewalls.html
http://www.distributedfirewalls.com/firewall.html
http://www.sans.org/rr/firewall/next_gen.php

 

[the nature boy]

If I were the professor,

FFactor gets an F
Austrian gets an A

 

[Ffactor]

Good job Austrian! This goes to show the Europeans are much better informed than us Americans!

 

[rsnoble]

If your firewall is rated at 4 hours or better, you will have to install fire dampers.

 

[gsxr1000]

Good job Austrian! This goes to show the Europeans are much better informed than us Americans!

Either that or they are just better able to go to google.com