On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:27:29AM +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote: > Hi there: > > Well, it seems "google is your friend" is used extensivly trough this mailing > list. I tried my best to make friends with him and to find a sample iptables > config file, with no success. tldp also gave me the same results. I admit > that the iptables man page is too cryptic for me ( and I have one of those > Network + certificates ). All i want is a good and simple firewall, for my > desktop system. I have no public server installed on my computer ( well, I > use exim to send mails ) and I don't want anyone to access my computer from > anywhere. can anyone point me to the right direction? If you really want to get your hands dirty, the 'Packet Filtering HOWTO' on http://www.netfilter.org/ is pretty much the canonical user documentation of iptables. It's amazingly powerful; from the description you gave above, it will take only about 5 lines to have an extremely secure firewall (baring kernel bugs, of course). -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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