Re: Firewall Box
Try looking at the section on firewalling at the link pretty good info on testing and rule design.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linag2/book/index.html
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Matt Kopishke <kopishke@midcoast.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 09:07:22 -0500 (EST)
>Hi, I need to implement a firewall at work. It will be for the most part
>a pretty simple set up. I am going to set one of our Linux Boxes between
>the Router and the Switch. The Box has 3 NICs, one for the router side,
>one for the switch, and one for a backup cable connection. We have a
>block of IPs, and we will need to get to machines behind the firewall from
>the out side so I don't want to use ipmasq. What I plan on doing is just
>using ipchains to shutoff any unused ports, and strip the box of any
>questionable software (ie ssh instead of telnet). Has any one tried such a
>set up? And if they have could you pass on any pointers or things to
>watch out for? I also see there are a few packages out there to aid
>setup, how well do they work?
>
>Thanks,
>
> -Matt-
>
> -----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
> kopishke@midcoast.com | |
> http://www.flni.com | A long time ago, in a state far, far away... |
> Web Guru, Perl jocky, | OKLAHOMA! |
> Linux bum, etc... | http://www.waldotheatre.org |
> --Debian GNU/Linux-- | |
> -----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
>
>
>--
>Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null
>
>
Reply to: