On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:06:10AM -0500, cothrige wrote: > * Kevin Mark (kevin.mark@verizon.net) wrote: > > > > > Hi Patrick, > > most folks just run 'shorewall'! And you can add more rules if you need > > to. > > =Kev > > This does seem to be the consensus here. However, as I have never > used this tool it is a bit intimidating. And the documentation is so > vast it may be a bit of an overkill for my very simple purposes. You > see, I have only one NIC which is connected to a Linksys router, which > in turn is connected to the modem. My modem does its own firewalling, > but I cannot bring myself to rely entirely on it, and always set up my > own as well. But, because I have only one NIC I can never quite > figure out what to do with loc in the zones, which in the > documentation and such is always eth1, which I don't have. Should I > not have a loc zone? Or do I just have eth0 for both net and loc? read this http://www.shorewall.net/standalone.htm A
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