On Monday 25 February 2002 11:23 am, Chandrama Mishra wrote:
> 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 ?
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://cag.lcs.mit.edu/~cananian/Projects/PPTP/ , i beleive it needs the same
ppp and kernel patches as the pptpd
>
> Thanks in advance,
> C. Mishra
