This months SysAdmin Magazine has a good article about iptables. If you PROMISE to go bu the magazine, I have posted the article. Please, noone get me sued for copyright infringement.
Disclaimer: By clicking this link below, I promise that I will go and purchase December 2001 issue of sysadmin Magazine: http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu/~sroddy/iptables/ :-) Shannon PS - it is a 5.9 Mb file.... Had to scan it to jpg and then pdf it. On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 18:47, John Hebert wrote: > I don't know of any right now, but at the last meeting > we decided to cover exactly this topic at the next > meeting. My firewall is OpenBSD based, but I want to > learn more about using Linux as a firewall. > > How about it, Linux Firewall Experts? > > John Hebert > > --- Muhammed N Hasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > John: > > > > No problem at all! > > > > I got it from a friend. I thought it was kind of > > funny and wanted to share > > it with you. > > > > Now, I need some help. I just upgraded one of my > > Linux boxes to Red Hat 7.2 > > from 7.0. I didn't know until I found out after the > > upgrade that Kernel 2.4 > > dropped support for ipchains. I was running > > PMFirewall before. It uses > > ipchains. So it's no use right now. > > > > Anyway, I did a search on SourceForge and came up > > with Shorewall. I played > > with it a little bit. It is nice and powerful. But > > the problem is there are > > too may configuration files to configure at the time > > of installation. Which > > got me confused. In PMFirewall, the installation > > script is interactive and > > walks you through setting up the firewall > > painlessly. > > > > Does anyone know of a firewall that uses iptables > > AND fairly easy to setup? > > > > Thanks > > > > Muhammed > > > > > > From:John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@brlug.net > > on 11/13/2001 05:53 AM > > PST > > > > > > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > cc: (bcc: Muhammed N Hasan/mhasan1/LSU) > > > > Subject: Re: [brluglist] Cajun Virus > > > > > > > > Muhammed, > > > > I just realized I made a critical typo in my > > previous > > email. The last sentence should have read: > > > > "And we have a good sense of humor, so no offense > > taken." > > > > Sorry about that, Muhammed. > > > > John Hebert > > > > > > --- John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Muhammed, > > > > > > Contrary to popular belief, Cajuns aren't > > ignorant. > > > While ULL may not be as good as LSU at football, > > I'd > > > say the ULL Computer Science program is better > > than > > > LSU's. > > > > > > And we have a good sense of humor, so offense > > taken. > > > :) > > > > > > John Hebert > > > > > > --- Muhammed N Hasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > U have jus received da Cajun Bad to the Bone > > Coon > > > > Ass Virus. Sance we ain't > > > > got no programin sperience dis virus woks on da > > > > honor system. Please d'leet > > > > all da files on u hard driver and manually > > forward > > > > dis virus to averybody > > > > on u maleing list. Tank ya'll for u cooperation. > > > > Sicerly, Boudreaux and Thibodaux > > > > > > > > ================================================ > > > > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > > > > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > > > > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > > > > your subscription information. > > > > ================================================ > > > > ================================================ > > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > > your subscription information. > > ================================================ > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals > http://personals.yahoo.com > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ -- __________________________________________________________________ Shannon Roddy California Institute of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] LIGO Livingston Observatory ph: (225)686-3106 19100 LIGO Lane fx: (225)686-7189 Livingston, LA 70754 ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
