Be sure to turn off the services you do not need. Here's a website that will scan
your network externally. Not guaranteed to provide any security, but may point out
some problems:
http://www.sygatetech.com/
Cory
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 02:16:56AM +0000, Dragon Singer wrote:
> Hi, Ralph & the Gang,
> As I mentioned in my other post I am running Mandrake 7.2 kernel
> 2.2.17-21mdk. On two machines an AMD K6-2 300Mhz box, and a 150Mhz pentium
> box which I'm trying to make a gateway/router/firewall.
> I've gotten several cd's with my copies of Maximum LInux (soon to be
> defunct) and most of the goodies on those discs have files that end in
> tar.gzip I was wondering how do I untar and/or ungzip those files using the
> command line as I need to get some of those files into the 150Mhz gate box
> and Xwindows is very slow.
> My question about ipchains is how do I set it up on the 150Mhz box so I can
> use it as the router/gateway/firewall between Western Illinois University's
> (WIU's) LAN and my two desktop boxes? I tried using the scripts posted on
> the Techtv superguide to set ipchains up, but sonething wasn't quite kosher,
> and I wasn't able to get 'em to work. Without ipchains running I'm not sure
> I can get my babylan to working.
> --
> Yours very Sincerely and Respectfully
>
> Wayne M. Scace
> &
> Leader Dog Sequoia
>
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> FPQRP#217
