Re: LAN Firewalling

[Ben Devine]

Hi, You put two Nics in so one connects to your switch witch is connected to your machines, The other nic is connected to you ADSL hub thing. But if you Adsl/Dialup is not a hub/switch you only need one nic card in your Firewall/Gateway that connects to your machines.



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Justin Soong wrote:

So a Ipcop machine needs two NIC's.
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From: "Christopher Sawtell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: LAN Firewalling


On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 23:30, you wrote:

looks like gibraltar needs a hiher spec computer than Ipcop

Yes, in particular you need a reasonably new CDROM drive which can read CD-R
disks and go reasonably fast.

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Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: LAN Firewalling

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 21:57, you wrote:

Reading the IP cop faq, it says I needs a whole computer to run ipcop.

is

ipcop a distro or what.

In effect IPCop is a very special distro. It's a firewall distro.

You might like to look at Gibraltar too.

http://www.gibraltar.at/

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From: "Christopher Sawtell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: LAN Firewalling

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 20:50, Justin Soong wrote:

Hello guys,

I am planning to home network serveral Windows Computers @ my home.
I'll

be

using a ADSL router and a switch to share a connection.

Will I be able to use a Linux computer as a firewall for the Windows
Machines?

Yes.

http://ipcop.sf.net/

I'm new to Linux and can someone explain how this firewalling
business works.

In a sentence or three: The firewall examines each data packet to see if
you want to allow it to get past the "gate-keeper". The firewall

examines

both the packet and its internal "rule-book". The packets which don't

match

up with the rules are not allowed through the firewall and thus into

your

local network,

If you have experience can you tell be whether the firewall
server would be part of the network or before the hub/switch.

The firewall always goes between the modem to the Internet and the rest
of your network. All the data has to go through it.

Justin
(keep warm)brrrrrr..........

Got blanket over knees. Ta

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