Matt Whitfield wrote:
>
> Hi all, I've been using RH 6.0 for over a year and reading this list
> for about the same time. Finally, I've got an external modem and wanna
> try using the internet from Linux (don't get me started on buying an
> expensive machine only to find out most of the components are cheap -
> yes I'm talking Winmodem, etc.). I've done a fair amount of reading
> about security in the past but it was only when I actually started to
> set it up myself that I realized - there seems to be very little
> information about setting up a single machine for internet usage. What I
> really want to know is should I set up ipchains on the machine that is
> accessing the internet, all the literature I've found points to using it
> on a dedicated machine with masquerading. So any hints on how to set up
> nice secure single machine would be gratefully received.
>
> [ ... ]
Matt,
I am running ISDN, so I really do have absolutely no experience
with a modem -- but being new to GNU/LINUX there are 2
books that helped me a lot, and both have also infos about how to
build your Internet connection with a modem:
"Learning Red Hat Linux" /by Bill McCarty (O'Reilly)
-- it has about 20 pages on "Getting connected to the Internet"
( ... I'm not sure whether all the infos in it are useful for you:
they're also talking about 'minicom' and 'seyon' in it ... but you'll
find a part in it that talks about "Configuring your modem")
And this one:
"Running Linux"/by Welsh, Dalheimer, Kaufman (O'Reilly)
This book has more than 30 pages on TCP/IP and several pages on
"Dial-up PPP" in it ...
This is what I wrote some days ago on this list about this book:
"But I can recommend "Running Linux" (O'Reilly) -- I am new to GNU/LINUX,
knowing nearly nothing on the system, and I can clearly say that
this book probably is responsible for the fact, that I was able
in about 4 weeks or so after starting with GNU/LINUX to setup a
working ISDN to my machine .... I simply copied some ISDN-scripts they're
offering in the book ... and after 2 or 3 friendly additional advice
from lists I had an Internet connection with my GNU ...
Best of it: the authors of it can write ...
I often use it together with the new man's on my box, because IIRC
I've heard ( -- I don't know whether this is correct ...) that the
infos in the book sometimes are a bit outdated ---
nevertheless: without this book I probably even today wouldn't have
an Internet connection with LINUX ...
The book has about 730 pages (Index about 28 pages ...)"
As to security for your machine, again something I wrote here some days
ago:
---------------------------------
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/resources/documentation-1.html
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/docs/
http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/
(link to "Linux Network Administrator's Guide, 2nd Edition" ...??
I didn't read it yet ... I' not sure whether it helps ...)
-------------------------------------
There was a thread some days ago on "Securing linux" here on this
list ... if you don't have it, maybe it's already at
http://www.moongroup.com/old/redhat.php
(I am not sure whether they're so fast there ...)
All my hints probably do not replace useful help from a list like
this, but hopefully they're at least a good start ...
I apologise for repeating what I already wrote here.
Bye --
Wolfgang
wget -l 20 -r -L -np -nc http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linag2/book/index.html
--
http://www.geocities.com/wolfgangpfeiffer/
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