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Three firewalls

Three firewalls

Posted Oct 28, 2011 16:04 UTC (Fri) by jmalcolm (guest, #8876)
In reply to: Three firewalls by josh
Parent article: LCE2011: Kernel developer panel

Well, he did say that the WIFI stuff was all on the outer network. "Wired" machines can be reached without trouble once you have breached the network as normal networking is not encrypted or secured. So, you need to protect the network (and the hosts) with things like firewalls.

You cannot put a firewall around wireless which is why wireless networking requires encryption and authentication. It is also why you do not let your wireless network inside the firewall of wired machines "you care about".


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