----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Doherty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 8:51 PM Subject: Re: [mhvlug] One more question.....(yeah, sure)
> Wayne wrote: > > >OK, I got my Linux Mandrake 9.1 router/firewall system up and running on > >Optimum online. I'm using Firestarter for firewall/nat gui. All my Windows > >systems (two WinME's, one W2K and one XP home) all connect up to net through > >the router sys with no problem (I just tell them to connect to the Gateway > >at 192.168.0.1(eth1 ip )(cable modem is dhcp on eth0) and get DNS from > >same). I'm trying to set up a second linux box running RH 9 as a web and > >game server (Team Fort Classic) but to start with I can't get it to connect > >through the linux router. I've told it the gateway is at 192.168.0.1 same as > >the windows boxes and the DNS is at the same (also tried not specifying DNS) > >but it wont connect. I can ping the router though. Am I forgetting / missing > >something stupid here? > > > > > What kind of firewall rules are you running? Are you logging rejected > packets? Can you show the output a an ifconfig -a and a netstat -r? > > Jim > Well...I think I was hacked last night (two systems involved were the router sys and a game sys that I use to download (all the other systems were shut down)). I shut them down and disconnected from the network, I'm going to hose them down and re install their os's (win 98 se and Mandrake 9.1) so I can't really give you the outputs. One of my problems is I don't really know what rules Firestarter loads by default. I was trusting to faith that they were "good enough", was having another issue that I was addressing via the ng comp.os.linux.security and had a couple of other people ask "what rules are you running?" at which point I realized I better find out.....but not in time. So...I'm back to running a W2K sys (the one that was supposed to be my web and game server :-( ) with Norton's Internet Security (I actually loaded it on ALL my windows systems) until I have more knowledge of setting up a secure firewall on Linux. Sooooo!!!! Can anyone point me to a good website or a good book (iptables for dummies maybe....) to better understand what I need to do to set up a secure firewall? (oh well...back to reloading software....AAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!) _______________________________________________ mhvlug mailing list - http://mhvlug.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.dague.net/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug
