On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 03:15:46AM -0500, Kriselda Jarnsaxa wrote:
> Basic general protection to and from the Internet.  I'm running Linux on an 
> individual computer that, technically, is linked to two other computers in 
> the house (the Windows side is networked fine, the Linux side isn't yet 
> speaking to the other two computers), but I'm not worried about security 
> there, since it's just me and my hubby.  I just don't want to leave it 
> totally open to marauding strangers, eh?  :)
> 
> Kriselda

So basic first step is port closing (as always) and second step is firewalling
rules ie ipchains/tables.

Hopefullly info provided is all you need to get started. I'm sure there's
plenty of ipchains expertise on this list.

Mary.

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Mary Gardiner
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