On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 06:00:42AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > ipfwadm is the firewalling tool for Linux.
> ipfwadm has not been the firewalling tool for Linux since kernel 2.2 came out
> - just after RHL 5.2.
Gah., You're right. I haven't used linux for a firewall in a while.
Ipchains is the new stuff.
> > As for my opinion, again, if you are using this for a desktop
> > workstation, forget it. A firewall should be a machine that has *ONLY*
> > the firewall running on it, doing port forwarding and/or ip
> > masquerading to handle inbound and outbound services.
>
> > If you want to be secure, go find the cheapest motherboard you can
> > that can boot of a cdrom, a cheap case, and a decent power supply.
> > Then get a cheap cdrom. Stick about 64 meg of ram in it, and set up a
> > bootable cdrom to load a ram disk with the ipfw stuff.
>
>There's a bootable floppy that provides a firewall. I've not looked at it, but
>I gather it requires no other disk space.
If you trust floppies, I guess it's fine. Just write protect it.
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