On Thursday 23 January 2003 08:20 pm, freeman wrote:
> My questions are: 1) what is the best way to protect my PC's from her
> PC? The thought that comes to mind is to have eth0=internet,
> eth1=privateLAN_me, eth2=privateLAN_her.
>
> Normally eth2 is used for a DMZ so I'd expect that there are some
> significant config things to be done to achieve eth2 as a private LAN.

That will work fine. If you don't want her to have access to your other LAN
segment, don't add a route for her to do so.

> Should I work towards this 4-nic setup, or can I have her and I coexist
> safely on the same eth1 interface? If My PC's are 192.168.0.x/24 and her
> PC is 192.168.1.x/24 are we separate enough? I use MS file-sharing
> between my PC's but don't want her PC to be able to access my PC's via
> MS sharing.

It should protect you perfectly if a route isn't built for her to do so. 
IIRC, Shorewall doesn't support over 3 interfaces.


> I'll speculate that if I have NetBIOS and NetBEUI disabled on both our
> boxes, that any MS sharing would have to transit over TCP/IP and thus I
> can control it via the Bering box?

NetBEUI isn't routable and NetBIOS is built into TCP/IP, so you would have
to disable NetBIOS over the TCP/IP settings on her box _if_ you add the
route. So disabling both boxes wouldn't open either machine to this traffic.
-- 
~Lynn Avants
Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall developer
http://leaf.sourceforge.net


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