The use of a Firewall

numaria · Post #1 (**permalink**) 08-20-2006, 05:55 PM

How important is it to connect a FireWall to a server? Datacenters often offer hardware or even software firewalls for a charge, often not small. If it really is such an important aspect, wouldn't it be possible to install a firewall oneself (with root access)?

Galaxy-Hosts · Post #2 (**permalink**) 08-20-2006, 08:13 PM

Yes it is possible to install a sftware fire wall yourself with root access. If you are using Linux I can recommend APF firewall. Also if the server is a cpanel server WHMext will give you a graphical interfact to administer APF from. We also install the BFD (Brute Force Detector) addon to APF on all our servers.

lnxadmin · Post #3 (**permalink**) 08-21-2006, 07:56 AM

Yoy can use the firehol to generate the iptables rules. i have been using this tool for the past 2 years without any issue.