Tuesday, May 14, 2013

How can I protect other machines on my Lan using virtual firewall appliance ?

Q. If I have a Windows machine with a virtual linux based firewall appliance inside of it, I know how to protect the host machine with the firewall. How do I protect the other machines on the LAN using the virtual appliance ? Would I only have to set the "Gateway" setting of the other machines to the address of the virtual machine ?

A. Yes, and set their firewalls to block anything not comming from the appliance.

How to configure windows firewall?
Q. How to configure windows firewall. How to close some ports and lock some IP address. I know in linux firewall.

A. use comodo firewall. and no worrys
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what Linux firewall distro should i install?
Q. i have a compaq presario 7470 with a 533mhz AMD k-6 processor, 15GB hard drive, and 256MB of ram. What linux firewall distrobution should i load up onto it? any other ideas besides a firewall for this machine? what else could i use it for?
i want to use it as an extra layer of protection to protect my home network (about 4 pc's, 1 mac, and 3 tablets) from "bad" things on the internet. i just wanted to load up a firewall distro, configure it ( i have configured a friends before, but never installed myself) and just let it run and protect me.

A. I suggest pfSense. You will need 2 ethernet ports. PCI ethernet cards are cheap.
http://www.pfsense.org/
Hardware Sizing Guidance
http://www.pfsense.org/?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Item



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