On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
>Okay, I've been playing around with PMfirewall for a bit now. I did grab
>the ipchains (not ip_chains!!!) RPM and install it, so ipchains is in
>/sbin. I did a sh install.sh from the pmfirewall-1.1.4 folder, and the
>script starts. It does find ipchains now. I have a few questions about
>the questions it asks during the installation. What exactly am I
>supposed to put for the external interface? I tried ppp0,
>eth0, even modem (yes, I was desperate!).
Depends a lot on how you connect to the net. I use ISDN, so my interface
is IPPP0. When you use a modem and PPP dial-up, it should be PPP0
>Any hints/clues/suggestions for a firewall user wannabe? I did read the
>docs and man page with pmfirewall, as well as the ipchains HOWTO,
>but I still couldn't any docs that walk you through the installation
>script. (or did I just miss it somewhere?)
As Steve said, there is a separate mailing list for PMFirewall. Maybe it
is a good thing to go there and ask. I am not a firewall specialist, just
found this program to be very very useful and easy.
>Thanks in advance! ;-)
>
>PS Oh, 1 more thing. Pmfirewall is listed as starting when I bootup, and
>I've got it set to start when ppp is successful. Is this the correct way
>to start it?
Hmmm, I think it should hook itself to /etc/ppp/ip-up instead of the boot
sequence, but since I always load it at boot, I am not sure...
Paul
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