----- Original Message -----
From: Glen Lee Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: ipchains question
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, M. Neidorff wrote:
>
> >If this is a question (I'm not sure you are asking or not), then what you
> >say is correct. It is exactly what I am doing here. The one possible
> >misunderstanding is that ipchains is not required to make the
> >connection...it does security.
>
> I could use some clarification on this: I'm in the process of installing
> DSL, and am going to use a Linux box as a firewall, with 2 (maybe 3)
> Windows machines behind it on the LAN. These are home PC's, nothing of a
> real sensitive nature on them, and the Windows boxes aren't set up for
> file or printer sharing, so no one can get in to see their files anyway.
>
> Basically what you're saying is that I can just hook up the ethernet
> cards, do some modifications on the Linux firewall to include the gateway
> IP address,
You need to modify your computers behind the firewall to see the firewall as
the gateway.
One other easy way to setup an ipchains script is pmfirewall. Download that
and intall, it configures everything for you.
hth,
kent
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