On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 20:38, hans privat wrote: > hi, > does anyone know good docs for learning to setup an mdk-box as a > firewall ? am NOT meaning man-pages - these are not ideal for starting. > > for example, have tried out to setup the system-security to higher, but > then I didn't got a connection via ssh to my remote linux-boxes. as well > as : how to I get an nfs-connection to the remote hosts. > > I am a really "greenhorn" on all that "securities", but does meanwhile > know, that it is very important. > > hope, anyone can give some useful hints. > > thanks and bye > hans
Hi, The firewall program that I really like for Mandrake, is firestarter, which can be can be downloaded from http://ftp.physics.auth.gr/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS/firestarter-0.9.0-1mdk.i586.rpm once you have installed that then run the command firestarter and been through it's setup wizard... run the command "chkconfig firestarter off" that will make sure that it does not start on startup, as you are using a dialup link,so make up a file /etc/ppp/ip-up.local and ip-down.local and place the commands "/etc/init.d/firestarter start" in the ip-up.local file and "/etc/init.d/firestarter stop" in the ip-down.local file. That will make a good firewall for dial on demand type of system, with a dynamic IP address. Firestarter is quick and easy to setup, and it does NAT, and has a nice graphical interface, which you can see when people are hitting your firewall.. Cheers Mark Williamson
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