I'm only replying because I haven't seen any other replies, and the limited advice I can offer may be bit bit better than nothing. I don't use Red Hat, and so I do not know what "setup' program you are referring to.With that disclaimer ...
... to see what firewalling setup you currently have, you can list your current ruleset with the command "ipchains -nvl". (Since you are running 2.4.x, RH might be using iptables rather than ipchains; in that case, you want to use "iptables -nvL" or something close to that syntax.) ... your firewalling is probably set up by an init script, in whateve directory RH uses for init scripts (perhaps /etc/init.d/). That script probably calls a separate firewalling script, perhaps located in /etc/network ... but you will have to look around for that. ... to set up a customized firewall, you'll want to disable whatever automatic firewalling is installed, then create an init program that executes the ipchains (and perhaps ipmasqadm, if you are doing any port forwarding) -OR- iptables commands -- whichever RH is set up to use -- you want to run. Or you can simply have your bespoke firewall script run after the RH one, and let it start by clearing the chains/tables of the rules that the RH script has installed. Without a greater understanding of what you want to do, the only other thing I can suggest is that you read the appropriate HowTos (Firewalling; Ipchains; I think there is a separate one for Ipmasqadm; by now there is probably one for Iptables). Good luck. At 10:43 AM 9/9/02 +0530, Sriram Narasimhan wrote: >Hello, > >I am using Red Hat 7.2 running 2.4.7-10 > >I seem to be having a problem changing the firewall configuration. When I >installed Red Hat I didn't bother to set the firewall and it defaulted to >the "High" Security level. > >I am trying to change this to a customized firewall configuration, by >running the 'setup' utility. > >But even after changing the configuration, there seems to be no effect of >the change. Every time I run 'setup' I keep seeing the setting at "High" >Security level. > >Am I doing something wrong, or should I do something else to change the >setting ? > >Many Thanks. -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
