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Exclusive features of TC !
bmarkus:
--- Quote from: Guy on March 22, 2010, 01:19:38 PM ---Another thing is the easy to set up, effective, firewall. All Linux distros have firewalls, but Tiny Core's is unique.
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Guy, would you explain it?
Guy:
http://wiki.tinycorelinux.com/tiki-index.php?page=Firewall
bmarkus:
--- Quote from: Guy on March 22, 2010, 01:56:07 PM ---http://wiki.tinycorelinux.com/tiki-index.php?page=Firewall
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You must install iptables.tcz to have it. It is not an exclusive feature, nearly all distributions offer firewall either built-in or installable based on iptables.
IMHO a firewall is completely unnecessary in most of the TC/MC applications as simply you do not have any services running and no open ports by default. When you are adding networking services, you must configure your security environment, not only firewall. Good example is SSH daemon, but same for an ftp server.
So forget basic firewall. It is dangerous in term that one can think system is safe just because he installed a firewall :'(
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