One option would be to go to http://www.pointman.org/pmfirewall and
download pmfirewall which is really easy set up and will protect your
from common attacks (SMB , IP spoofing, BO, Trin00 etc) using Ip chains,
and will masquerade internal connections, if you have several machines on
your internal lan that want to access the internet, but have only one
valid IP address.
If you are really concerned about security, your firewall should be a
seperate machine, interspersed between your lan and the internet, with
mosts ports shut down, and running a minimum of services.
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On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Ron Stodden wrote:
> _=+Richard+=_ wrote:
> >
> > How do you start the firewall? I have comletly no idea what a firewall
> > is but I heard it protects you from hackers....is that right?
>
> Read the ipchains HOWTO.
>
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>
> Regards,
>
> Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
>
