So I just googled for /firewall linux/ and I am now as almost as
clueless as before because there is so much stuff out there.
Where could I get started on that issue of setting up a good firewall?
What do I have to pay attention to in particular?
Thank you a lot.
.alex
So I had SBC DSL before. I used pppoeconf to set it up, and it worked
like a charm. When I moved the other day I switched to cable. I tried
to set it up, and it scanned and told me it couldn't detect a
connection. It said to check and make sure that all the cords were
connected, and that no oth
Well, when I was in Kirksville Cableone didn't require pppoe, it was
just a straight ethernet connection. I just configured my eth0 to use
dhcp and registered my mac address with Cableone.
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 05:39:35PM -0600, Christopher Gordon wrote:
> So I had SBC DSL before. I used pppoec
A better keyword would be iptables. Its the name of the part of the
kernel which does the firewall. So you may have to recompile your kernel
to get it to work.
Really a firewall is only necessary if you have ports open that you
would like to close to the outside world (but would like to keep th
