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Three firewalls

Three firewalls

Posted Oct 28, 2011 15:53 UTC (Fri) by jmalcolm (guest, #8876)
In reply to: Three firewalls by man_ls
Parent article: LCE2011: Kernel developer panel

Three firewalls is a pretty common configuration really.

You use two firewalls to create a DMZ which is of course a pretty typical setup.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMZ_%28computing%29

Add a personal firewall on your own machine (again, a standard security recommendation) and presto--you have three firewalls.


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