Subj : Pro-active firewall?
To   : Shurato
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Tue Aug 06 2024 22:28:44


Hello Shurato!

06 Aug 24 18:33, you wrote to me:

 Sh> I have a friend sending me one, so I'm set.  It'll be preconfigured as
 Sh> well.

I have my pfSense box running on an old HP Elitedesk 705 desktop (3.4Ghz i5, 
8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, with dual PCIe Intel PRO/1000 NICs)...absolute overkill for 
a firewall but it's what I had laying around in spare parts.  Handles 
everything that gets thrown at it very nicely.

Like I said before, an edge firewall will not protect open ports.  You have to 
have a good firewall on the machine with open ports so it can protect itself.

Sean


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