Re: Tuning Network Connections in Linux

2003-10-27 Thread James McDonald
Just out of curiousity, have you read the documentation located at the fwbuilder site? Yes I had a look at the stuff on the fwbuilder.org site and it's very comprehensive. I was hoping to do an `If I have x situation what are the exact steps to get y result' sort of sxs. -- James McDonald

Re: Tuning Network Connections in Linux

2003-10-27 Thread Michael Hipp
Keith Morse wrote: I would recommend fwbuilder it's a great gui interface to create a complete firewall script. Has alot of check box style tuning options. Indeed so would I. In fact it has become rather indispensible for maintaining my main firewall. The rulesets have become rather complex

Re: Tuning Network Connections in Linux

2003-10-27 Thread Keith Morse
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Matthew Carpenter wrote: Also check out the Webmin Firewall module. It is quite good.. k Actually, I've been meaning to. Do you know if it will read the current rulesets ad-hoc that are in memory and management them real time?

Re: Tuning Network Connections in Linux

2003-10-26 Thread Keith Morse
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, James McDonald wrote: Keith Morse wrote: [snippage] I would recommend fwbuilder it's a great gui interface to create a complete firewall script. Has alot of check box style tuning options. Indeed so would I. In fact it has become rather indispensible for

Re: Tuning Network Connections in Linux

2003-10-25 Thread Keith Morse
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, David A. Bandel wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:56:14 -0700 Simper, Brian D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working with a server that will act as a firewall so it will, of course, see a lot of traffic. What is the procedure for tuning Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9.0 to

Re: Tuning Network Connections in Linux

2003-10-25 Thread James McDonald
Keith Morse wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, David A. Bandel wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:56:14 -0700 Simper, Brian D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working with a server that will act as a firewall so it will, of course, see a lot of traffic. What is the procedure for tuning Red Hat Linux 7.3 or

Tuning Network Connections in Linux

2003-10-23 Thread Simper, Brian D
I am working with a server that will act as a firewall so it will, of course, see a lot of traffic. What is the procedure for tuning Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9.0 to increase the number of network connections the OS can accept? Is there a way to see the setting? Are there any general tuning that

Re: Tuning Network Connections in Linux

2003-10-23 Thread David A. Bandel
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:56:14 -0700 Simper, Brian D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working with a server that will act as a firewall so it will, of course, see a lot of traffic. What is the procedure for tuning Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9.0 to increase the number of network connections the OS can