Re: Home network security issues
On Monday 25 February 2002 11:23 am, Chandrama Mishra wrote: Hi, I have dual homed SuSE Linux(73) machine running iptables as my firewall cum gateway to cable modem connection The other two machines on the network are win2k machines ( a desktop and a laptop) I'm running ZoneAlarm as well on the desktop The iptables firewall is configured to allow domain and dhcp related services on the external interface while all the services are allowed from the internal network ( Configured it via SuSEfirewall2) When I dumped the iptables rules in a file, it's a complex mess running upto 8 a4 pages My questions are : 1 Do I need to upgrade to bind9 from bind8 ? keep up to date with whatever SuSE is doing 2 The network is secure enough or do I still need to buy a cable/dsl router ? sounds pretty secure as is 3 Do, I need some IDS like snort? that'd be nice, 4 I can configure to run pptpd but can't find pptp (I have got script to connect to office network that uses pptp from linux) So, pptp daemon and pptp are separate packages? no they arent the linux pptp client is available at http://caglcsmitedu/~cananian/Projects/PPTP/ , i beleive it needs the same ppp and kernel patches as the pptpd Thanks in advance, C Mishra
Re: Home network security issues
1 Do I need to upgrade to bind9 from bind8 ? if you are worried about security use djbdns 2 The network is secure enough or do I still need to buy a cable/dsl router ? Use OpenBSD 3 Do, I need some IDS like snort? Not if you use OpenBSD 4 I can configure to run pptpd but can't find pptp is it installed? whereis pptp __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - Send FREE e-cards for every occasion! http://greetingsyahoocom
Home network security issues
Hi, I have dual homed SuSE Linux(7.3) machine running iptables as my firewall cum gateway to cable modem connection. The other two machines on the network are win2k machines ( a desktop and a laptop). I'm running ZoneAlarm as well on the desktop. The iptables firewall is configured to allow domain and dhcp related services on the external interface while all the services are allowed from the internal network ( Configured it via SuSEfirewall2). When I dumped the iptables rules in a file, it's a complex mess running upto 8 a4 pages. My questions are : 1. Do I need to upgrade to bind9 from bind8 ? 2. The network is secure enough or do I still need to buy a cable/dsl router ? 3. Do, I need some IDS like snort? 4. I can configure to run pptpd but can't find pptp. (I have got script to connect to office network that uses pptp from linux). So, pptp daemon and pptp are separate packages? Thanks in advance, C. Mishra
