On Friday, 18. January 2002 05:29, Jor-el wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Javier Fern�ndez-Sanguino Pe�a wrote:
> > Both should point to other sites regarding general info (what a firewall > > is? what does netfilter do?) and not reproduce it (terrible waste of time > > and difficult to maintain up to date). > > Is it really wise to talk about netfilter in a "Debian Security > HOWTO"? After all, the stable distribution of Debian (which is what > newbies will and should use), uses the 2.2 kernel which doesnt support > netfilter. Do you think newbies would start with build their own firewall scripts? I don't. Having build a ipchains script, and having upgraded to iptables lately I would say that iptables required a much more sane script. I would like to have a bit more talk about firewall concepts and security background information than an packet-filter script implementation in the HOWTO. I think there are enough example script available on the net, and all the information I needed to write my script was in "Building Internet Firewalls, 2nd ed." from O'Reilly. I would have volunteered to contribute to the HOWTO, but during the next months my spare time is reduced to a minimum. I will return to the idea when I'm having more time and I look forward reading Martins work and add my thoughts to that. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
