Sorry to take so long in getting back to
you. I finally had time to run the install
last night
and it went well. I tested it at grc.com and
it came out well. A check on ports reminded
me to comment out telnet. Portsentry is
next. Again, thank you for the help.
Barry :-)
"Myers, Dennis R NWO" wrote:
>
>
> You don't have to do anything but follow
> the readme. When the install starts it will
> ask a bunch of questions. Answer no to most
> of them and allow unlimited access to
> 127.0.0. When all questions are answered
> and you tell it to start on ppp0
> connection, it will automatically modify
> your IPchains. You will be off and running.
> No other config required. Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On
> Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 8:10
> AM
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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> Subject: Re: [newbie] Security for
> Single Client
>
> Thats great. I've downloaded the .tar and
> have been going over the readme's and the
> IPChains HowTo. Do I have to compile the
> kernel under Mandrake 7.1 to
>
> enable IPChains, or can I do it from
> Drakconfig?
>
> Barry :-)
>
> On Tue, 12 September 2000, Dennis Myers
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Barry, In a word yes. I have it on my
> dial-up machine and it works like
> > a charm. Dennis
> >
> > Barry Premeaux wrote:
> >
> > > The majority of the info I have been
> reading
> > > on firewalls, and pmfirewall in
> particular,
> > > refers to a second machine setting
> between
> > > you and the outside world.
> > >
> > > What about the typical dial up client?
> Does
> > > pmfirewall work here as well?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Barry :-)
> >
> > --
> > Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842
>
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