Linux in Government: Optimizing Desktop Performance, Part III | Linux Journal

Tom Adelstein adelste at yahoo.com
Tue May 31 19:19:13 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 19:49 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
> Tom,
> 
> Nice article!
> 
> You suggest turning off iptables. Does this not effectively turn off any
> firewalling?
> 
> I know Ubuntu comes with no services listening and no firewalling by
> default, so it would not make much difference, not sure about Fedora and
> other distros though.
> 
> Just something to be cautious about, I guess. I liked the article in
> general though. Loved the definition of 'bloatware'!
> 
> Regards,
> Tony.
> 

Thanks Tony. 

Turning off iptables effectively kills the firewall. That's why I
annotated it with the comment - if not running a firewall. 

Someone out in either land (not Ethernet LAN) with a wireless connection
ought to have their system hardened. I'm planning on discussing that
pretty soon in one of the next installments. 

If a user lives behind a well constructed firewall, would you feel
satisfied if they didn't have a personal firewall?

Cheers







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