Re: Trying to protect another computer with a gnome-lokkit firewall

2006-04-15 Thread Fernando Augusto Bender
Fellow, I am new in Debian, but I'll try to help you with networks. If your 'New Debian' PC is connected to the linksys router by the NIC1 and to the 'To be Protected' PC by the NIC2, it should be so, configured: NIC2 and 'To be Protected' PC should be i nthe same network address, different from

Re: Trying to protect another computer with a gnome-lokkit firewall

2006-04-15 Thread George Langford,Sc.D.
I [now] have a perfectly good desktop PC running debian, openoffice, samba, etc. just fine, and I still need a firewall to protect a legacy PC with a foreign OS that hasn't got any virus protection, but which I'd like to network. I installed gnome-lokkit and set it up as a firewall with zero ha

Re: Trying to protect another computer with a gnome-lokkit firewall

2006-04-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 03:09:56 -0400 George Langford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are my questions: > > 1. Should I use a crossover Ethrnet cable between the debian PC and the > PC that's > chained to it ? Or a standard Ethernet cable ? Unless you have at least one network card with with au

Trying to protect another computer with a gnome-lokkit firewall

2006-04-15 Thread George Langford
I started out trying to set up a floppy firewall with an old PC, rescued from the motherboard of a defunct PC. Too impatient to wait for the Trenton Computer Fair (two weeks hence) and a nice empty PC case, I went to a local flea market & picked up a misconfigured PC on which someone had attem