stosss wrote: > I have a very basic lfs6.5/blfs svn system. I am taking my time > through the security chapter. Been there about 3 weeks now. as I > mentioned in another post I was having trouble with iptables-1.3.8 > errors during compilation. Chris S gave a link suggesting I should > look at iptables-1.4.4. I did, it installed, it appears to be right.
1.4.6 is current. > My question: setting up a network firewall page has three samples, the > first one in the book as copied below, will it work as is until I > learn more and decide I might want to change it? My lfs/blfs box is a > personal project behind two firewall routers in my personal office at > home. I am not using this box for anything other than to learn using > the lfs/blfs books. I am pretty sure my box is safe from attack > because both of my firewall routers have all the external ports closed > and set not to accept anything initiated from the outside. There are > no other computers on my network except the one I am using now and the > lfs box. I am the only one with physical access to these boxes. I do > not go out of my network with the lfs box. I don't use a firewall on my internal computers, but you can if you want. The script you quoted will allow all external connections and no connections from any other box. You can't, for instance, ssh into your system from another local system. That's something you might want to do. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
