On Tuesday 11 December 2001 00:08, Brian Parish wrote: > OK, time to get serious about this frewall stuff! > > I installed 8.1 with the server defaults. It seems that this has resulted > in some kind of firewall, because when I turned on internet connection > sharing it warned me that a firewall was in place and that I might have to > do some manual tweaking. > > From the traffic on this list it seems that Bastille would be a reasonable > choice and that there are enough interactive tools there to get started > without requiring guru status, so the questions are: > > What did Mandrake install by default? > > How do I find out? > > Do I need to turn that off before confusing things with a Bastille install? > > Is there a standard "OK this is just a home LAN with a ppp dialup, so baton > down the hatches, but don't stop me accessing the web and getting mail" > default that I can start with? > > What questions haven't I asked that are absolutely essential and so bloody > obvious that I should have just known about if only I'd read the manual for > whatever it is I don't know whether I have? ;-) > > thanks as always! > > Brian
Well there are plenty of Firewalls you could have installed. Tiny Firewall BastilleChooser InteractiveBastille They all basically do the same thing. Set up IPTables There was a nice article on www.mandrakeforum.org today on the subject. It tells you where the firewall config files are, and how to edit them by hand if you want to. FWIW the Tiny Firewall will do a simple home user just fine. A good place to test it is here. http://scan.sygatetech.com/ HTH Derek
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