Thanks for the tips on the firewall and the webcam. Now I have another silly question if you dont mind. Is there an alarm clock for linux. I hate having to stop and reboot each night back to windows so I can have my alarm clock.
On Thursday 11 September 2003 11:32 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:32:38 +0200 > > "Matthias F. Brandstetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ---------- quoting Collins Richey ---------- > > > > > All I can add is ditto; Shorewall is great. I might add, I'm using > > > it with the 2.6 kernels (now on -test5). It provides very > > > meaningful log messages (/var/log/messages unless you alter your > > > syslog setup). After my initial setup, I discovered that my > > > default setup was rejecting samba traffic from my lan, and that was > > > trivial to fix. > > > > Ahh, good point -- I did not try 2.6 kernel so far, and have a > > question: Is (and if yes what) there something "new" (some changes) > > in the netfilter implementation from 2.4 to 2.6? I mean, something > > like ipchains --> iptables from 2.2 to 2.4, or can I still use my > > firewall scripts with a 2.6 kernel? > > I can't answer that. I've only done shorewall/firewall on 2.6. The > only extra requirement that I found for shorewall is iproute-20010824-r4 > (masked). The rest was like falling off a log. My generall impression > is that the netfilter implementation changes are only those required by > 2.6 architectural changes and more bugfixes. -- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
