if I were you, I'd download gShield (do a google search) its really easy, there is only one file to download, and it asks questions that require one word answers..
and it can do anything you want, port forwarding and such.. its the closest I have found to pmfirewall on my long search for a decent iptables firewall. if however you wish to use the mandrake provided firewalls,you can use the mandrake control center and it will install the packages for you.. do you have a bastille directory in /etc??? rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Parish Sent: Tuesday, 11 December 2001 8:08 AM To: newbie Subject: [newbie] General firewall getting started type questions OK, time to get serious about this frewall stuff! I installed 8.1 with the server defaults. It seems that this has resulted in some kind of firewall, because when I turned on internet connection sharing it warned me that a firewall was in place and that I might have to do some manual tweaking. >From the traffic on this list it seems that Bastille would be a reasonable choice and that there are enough interactive tools there to get started without requiring guru status, so the questions are: What did Mandrake install by default? How do I find out? Do I need to turn that off before confusing things with a Bastille install? Is there a standard "OK this is just a home LAN with a ppp dialup, so baton down the hatches, but don't stop me accessing the web and getting mail" default that I can start with? What questions haven't I asked that are absolutely essential and so bloody obvious that I should have just known about if only I'd read the manual for whatever it is I don't know whether I have? ;-) thanks as always! Brian -- Brian Parish Click Now Consulting +61 414 325 521 This e-mail was produced in a Microsoft free environment and can be expected to be free of viruses. Even so, please be cautious in dealing with attachments.
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