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On Sunday 14 July 2002 9:01 pm, teddy wl wrote:

> You can setup your computer as firewall using IPTABLES
> or IPCHAINS, your mandrake 8.2 use IPTABLES, but you
> can use ipchains in your kernel 2.4.18x,. You should
> read ipchains manual or iptables manual. or you can
> visit this web site now.
>
> http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/Networks/Firewall_Installation.html
>
> I hope you find the solution for your linux firewall.
> Thankyou.
> I'm sorry if I can write in this email, because is too
> long to write here.

Woooo, editing text files <drum roll> :)

There are a number of rather nice GUI tools which produce these files 
for you. Under KDE I use Guarddog:

http://www.simonzone.com/software/guarddog/

The 'online manual' is worth the visit itself:

http://www.simonzone.com/software/guarddog/manual2/

The best-known test for 'is the firewall working' is ShieldsUp!; there 
are more complex ones, but they take ages to run and spew gobbledygook 
everywhere:

http://grc.com/

Alastair
- -- 
Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom)
http://www.unmetered.org.uk/
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