Re: [PLUG] Firewall setup ??

[James Sulfare Jr <jsulfare@fast.net>]

Thank you for taking the time to respond to this request.  I picked up the book
today and am finding it's contents to be very helpful.

Once again thanks.

-jimS

mg@infinity.stf.org wrote:

> Well, the ipchains HOWTO should be your first stop. It'll cover all the
> basics of setting up a packet filtering firewall.  Beyond that, I picked
> up a book called "Linux Firewalls" by Robert L. Ziegler at Borders which
> has proved useful to me.  Besides showing how to actually implement the
> firewall, the book shows you a good approach to designing a firewall. It
> also has several real world examples that are very helpful.
>
>         On a side note, as no doubt some of you using the 2.3.x kernels
> know, ipchains has been replaced by ipfilter. ipfilter in turn is divided
> into iptables and ipnatctl. I've been playing with iptables for about a
> month now, but I'm mostly interested in ipnatctl. I've heard very very
> good things about. So for anyone who is using it, what are your
> impressions?
>
> mg
>
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Bill Jonas wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, James Sulfare Jr wrote:
> >
> > >ISO..
> > >
> > >Some really great training and documentation on setting up a firewall with
> > >slackware 7.
> > >
> > >Please post links or e-mail them to me, All welcome.
> > >
> > >-jimS
> >
> > Please post to the list; I use Slack 7 as well.
> >
> > Bill
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