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Re: dynamic IP questions?



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On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:13:55AM -0500, 0debian user wrote:
> Hello I am connected to the net via ppp dialup connection(56k) modem. I am 
> thus not always online and I get a dynamic IP when I am online. So my 
> question is how can I make my machine more secure? Is there a guide/notes 
> specifically tailored to someone wishing to run iptables/ipcahins on a 
> single PPP connection which gets dynamic IP?

This one's pretty easy.  Deny everything, except packets related to an
existing connection or part of an established connection.

I'd have to look it up, myself, to remember how to do this, but the
iptables documentation is very good.

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