Thanks I will have a look at it. That's when sourceforge come's back online. I went to the website and it said that sourceforge is down for maintenance. They seem to be doing that quite a bit lately.
Glenn. On Monday 11 August 2003 09:26 am, you wrote: > > echo 1> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > > iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE > > > > You can see I am using an dial up connection to connect to the internet. > > > > The question is this. Am I leaving a really big security hole by doing > > things this way? Or is this good enough for a home user on a dial up > > connection. > > I would really recommend using a more advanced setup, this one doesn't > give you any real protection. The simplest NAT/Firewall system I've found > is firehol: http://firehol.sf.net. > It is a single bash script, and a really easy config file. You can pretty > much just take their example and use it directly for your situation, since > it is fairly trivial. > > Andre
