Re: [PLUG] Linux Firewalls Talk

[Vik Bajaj <vikram@cpu1894.adsl.bellglobal.com>]

We'll also be giving a brief firewall tutorial at the UnPLUG install-a-thon 
next week (annoucement to come).

--Vik

> 
> 
> 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
> > http://www.netaxs.com/~mryan/ | http://www.otakon.com/
> > 
> > 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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