hans privat wrote: > hi, > does anyone know good docs for learning to setup an mdk-box as a > firewall ? am NOT meaning man-pages - these are not ideal for starting. > > for example, have tried out to setup the system-security to higher, but > then I didn't got a connection via ssh to my remote linux-boxes. as well > as : how to I get an nfs-connection to the remote hosts.
Mandrake can install shorewall for you, but I don't like it, since it appears to be trying to make an inherently simple procedural task into a table driven mess, IMHO. It doesn't fit, but YMMV. My suggestion would be to install and try MonMotha's iptables firewall. Download the bash script: rc.firewall-2.3.8-pre7 from http://monmotha.mplug.org/firewall/index.php then edit the configuration section as explained and as you need, set ENABLE to "Y" and you are done editing. To install: 1. ./rc.firewall-2.3.8-pre7 2. iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables/iptables from where it will be automatically loaded at boot time. You can do 1 above any time since the script starts with iptables flush commands. -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] IMPORTANT! troels... for Mandrake GNU/Linux 9.0 now available. See my web site: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/
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