Re: proxies for personal firewalls

["Paul D. Robertson" <paul () compuwar net>]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, ML wrote:

> hi list,
> i have a little question: makes it sense to install proxies (ftp,http) on a
> personal firewall (only to protect my own pc to the internet) or are
> proxies only dedicated to protect internal networks?

> From a protection standpoint, it makes more sense to install better
applications locally.  You're using the same TCP/IP stack as the
applications, so you're unlikely to benefit from lower-level protection.
It's possible that you could gain application protection, especially if
you can add per-protocol filtering to the proxy- but the maintenance
headache of keeping that updated is probably no worse than that of
maintaining the applications directly.

Paul
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