Firewall

[Hodgins Family]

Good morning!

>I got my Breezy machine up and running over the weekend, and I LOVE IT

Excellent!

> In digging around a little bit this weekend, I could not find any type
> of firewall listed as being running

Yeah, Ubuntu "out-of-the-box" isn't supposed to need one.

> -- I am a bit leery of leaving an
> exposed machine hanging out on the broadband connection like that, so I
> was wondering where to find / how to configure the firewall for Breezy.

This link is nice for getting a script built: 
http://easyfwgen.morizot.net/gen/

Might also check out Shorewall or Firestarter. Some folks like these. If you 
want to see what "Big Brother" has to say about firewalls, cruise this list 
archive: http://lists.debian.org/debian-firewall/

Good luck!

Rob