hi, would this "firestarter" do its job also with a pptp-adsl-modem from alcatel ? was looking for ppp and it is there. think, that ppp-prog (or daemon) is independent from any calling procedure or prog ? isn't it ? so it seems, that it should do the job also with the calling pptp-prog ?
thanks once more bye hans Am Mon, 2002-10-14 um 15.43 schrieb Mark Williamson: > 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 > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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