Re: DSL & Firewall
Try going to www.smoothwall.org. It's a firewall distribution. My local LUG
just had a class on how to install it. It is *amazingly* easy to configure.
The only catch is it "takes over the system" so you need an extra computer.
The beauty is it'll run on a 386 with 8 meg (so the web site claims.) You can
download an iso image from sourceforge and burn-it onto a cd, or use the tar.gz
file and do a network install. Basically it's a hacked up version of V.A.
Linux 6.2.1 (a Red Hat 6.2 variant they use on their servers) parred down to
around 50 MB.
Jesse
On Sun, 05 Nov 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
> My "Mom & Pop" phone company had an insert in my latest
> phone bill that indicated they would be providing DSL
> service in the very near future. A friend of mine
> suggested that if I get the DSL service that I should set
> up a firewall to protect myself. He also suggested that
> I start with a page on the net (TrinityOS at http://24.7.216.129:8192/)
> that has some basic ipchain configurations. I don't understand any of
> this stuff, but the TrinityOS pages had a 100 line rc.firewall
> script and a 1300 line ipchains config file. Is all of this
> really necessary? Why cant I just set my "/etc/hosts.deny"
> file to "ALL: PARANOID", comment out the "telnet" "ftp" and
> "http" lines out of my "/etc/inetd.conf" file? Wouldn't
> that be enough protection for my system?
>
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> Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
> chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com
> Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
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