>> 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.
And it appears to be the same when it comes to configure, make, make install and operational configuration. I was going to use that but the link was for 1.4.4. >> 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. I thought about not using a firewall. I haven't used one on my distro boxes in the past and no one has ever made it passed the first router. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
