Re: [PLUG] Linux Firewalls Talk

[mg <mg@infinity.stf.org>]

I think one issue that would interest a lot of people would be discovering
how to deal with certain applications. Most people know which ports the
big apps use (smtp, http, etc), but let's say your company buys product X
which for some reason will not work through your firewall. The tech
support for product X has no mention of what ports it uses, etc and noone
else seems to know. What do you do? For instance, you might talk about
using tcpdump or some other sniffer to find out just what that app is
doing so you can configure your firewall accordingly. 

mg

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Michael W. Ryan wrote:

> Okay, it's about two months out from my talk on Linux firewalls.  What
> issues/topics are people particularly interested in?  I'd like to make
> this as practical as possible, and not devolve into a simple blow-by-blow
> of "this is how I set up my company's firewall" (there will probably be
> some of this, but I would like to be useful).
> 
> Two months should give me plenty of time to get ideas, research them, and
> break my company's Internet connection trying them out. :)
> 
> Michael W. Ryan, MCP, MCT     | OTAKON 2000
> mryan@netaxs.com              | Convention of Otaku Generation
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> 
> No, I don't hear voices in my head;
> I'm the one that tells the voices in your head what to say.
> 
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