Peter Rundle wrote:

> However the ipchains command that the Linux book i've used
> suggested is;
> 
>         ipchains -P forward DENY
>         ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j MASQ
> 
> I got confused trying to figure out the difference between
> input, output and forward chains. So my question is how secure
> is the above?

A bit, but not very.

I suggest you go get phpfwgen:

http://phpfwgen.sourceforge.net/

Grab the RPM, install it, point a web browser at it, and it will
create the rules for you.

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