On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 01:25, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > On 26/11/02 09:20 -0800, jh wrote: > > Having never set one up before and only having a little knowledge of linux > > where can I go to get a basic tutorial that just covers firewalls and linux. > http://www.linuxguruz.org/iptables/howto/iptables-HOWTO.html > http://www.google.com/search?q=iptables+howto > Search on freshmeat.net for firewall building tools. > > Or if you want to try out OpenBSD, there is a pf HOWTO on deadly.org > > If you want to get really funky, look on samag for dead firewall. Thats > a shutdown Linux box running as a firewall.
IIRC, this is using ipchains in runlevel 0. Interesting in concept, but lacks stateful inspection. Unless the same can be done via iptables, I recommend you stick with the earlier suggestion of OpenBSD/PF. -J.
