On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:07:06 Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > What is the minimum firewall that can be build & required for a home user ? > On a dial-up line. > Using ipchains. apt-get install ipmasq It'll do pretty much what you want with plenty of sanity-level security. It also provides an rc-style set of rules files that take a little bit to get used to, but are very nice once you do. M.