-----Original Message----- From: James B. Wilkinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 8:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: need iptables firewall
> Could somebody point me to where I should start reading? I'll try to help. When I came to the new job, I started Debian from the zero point. But I liked it from the very beginning. And that's why - almost all documentation I ever needed is located in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO. Try it and probably you'll find it useful. > It looks like I need to know how to replace a kernel ... This is not a very difficult task at all as its details fully described in "kernel howto". All you need is to obtain kernel source from kernel.org, configure it (see howto's and built-in help) using one of three frontends (make config or make menuconfig or make xconfig (or some kind of it - not sure, see howto)). Then you need to upgrade 2 libraries - modutils (to v.2.4.6-2) and util-linux ( to v.2.10s-1) if you are going to use modules. These ones are available in debs on debian.org. (I found them there :) > ...and how to set up and configure iptables. This can be done after reading Rusty Russel's "network packet filtering" and other howtos. Find them on "netfilter.samba.org". Good luck!
