Hi, Shlomi!
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:15:07PM +0300, you wrote the following:
> I have an Alcatel ADSL modem at home and I use it to connect my Mandrake
> 7.2 Linux to the Internet. I followed the HOWTO and everything is working
> fine.
>
> Now, I want to set up a firewall that will protect my computer in case
> somebody penetrates the modem. I have already set up an IP-Chains firewall
> to protect me against connecting to TCP ports via the ppp0 interface, but
> should I also do it for the "eth0" interface?
Why not? There should be no problem blocking all incoming TCP
connection attempts, as well as all the UDP and ICMP traffic.
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