Re: question about a firewall

2010-09-03 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Well. It's either I never felt it, or just never caused anything I could have felt. Ez On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > I'm not writing in my blogs about any of the issues that you mentioned, nor > do I host any such content, yet I had the "honour" of being DDoS attacked.

Re: question about a firewall

2010-09-03 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I'm not writing in my blogs about any of the issues that you mentioned, nor do I host any such content, yet I had the "honour" of being DDoS attacked. Hetz 2010/9/4 Etzion Bar-Noy > Your Cisco won't protect you against these either. There are specific DDoS > protection systems, which you are no

Re: question about a firewall

2010-09-03 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Your Cisco won't protect you against these either. There are specific DDoS protection systems, which you are not going to try and afford. Unless your servers are about gambling, porn or something very hot, you will not likely be the target of DDoS attack. I haven't been myself, for the last 7 years

Re: question about a firewall

2010-09-03 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I'm doing this thing right now. The only issue I worry about is attacks like DDoS. Hetz 2010/9/4 Etzion Bar-Noy > Hi. > I am in your shoes. I maintain several Linux systems hosted in Netvision > (currently) for the last few years. For the last 7 years or so, I have been > using iptables to prot

Re: question about a firewall

2010-09-03 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Hi. I am in your shoes. I maintain several Linux systems hosted in Netvision (currently) for the last few years. For the last 7 years or so, I have been using iptables to protect my systems from intrusion. I have been using denyhosts to prevent unauthorized SSH logins, and prevented direct root log

Re: question about a firewall

2010-09-03 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 22:40 +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi people, > As I setup my VPS/dedicated hosting here in Israel, I have been asked > by the hosting company (Netvision) to either buy and bring a firewall > or rent from them since the bandwidth I bought exceeds what is allowed > under their

question about a firewall

2010-09-03 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi people, As I setup my VPS/dedicated hosting here in Israel, I have been asked by the hosting company (Netvision) to either buy and bring a firewall or rent from them since the bandwidth I bought exceeds what is allowed under their firewall. They're offering Cisco 1383 (or 1838, I don't remember