Re: ipchains for the firewall challenged

2001-07-26 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 07/26/01 20:20:05 -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > I notice you've already applied another solution, but I hope I can > provide some direction should you (or anyone else) decide they'd like > to do it yourself: > > I have found that the most useful thing in setting up ipchains or > iptables is to

Re: ipchains for the firewall challenged

2001-07-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Mark Wagnon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010722 00:24]: > Hi all, > > I'm playing around with ipchains, but I'm just not getting the > example given in the IPCHAINS-HOWTO. It's based on a system that's > forwarding packets, but I'm not doing that. All I have is a single box > connected to the world with

Re: ipchains for the firewall challenged

2001-07-22 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 07/22/01 17:27:58 +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: > Have a look at > http://logi.cc/linux/ipchainsLogAnalyzer.php3 I'm sure I'll be using this to decipher logs in the near future. Thanks for the link! -- Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ipchains for the firewall challenged

2001-07-22 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > If I may ask, why do you not like it? The rules it produces are long and complex - that makes it hard to figure out if you did something wrong while configuring the firewall. > Is there so

Re: ipchains for the firewall challenged

2001-07-22 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 07/22/01 02:27:26 -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: > I'm not a big fan of it but pmfirewall is a popular starting point for > people new to setting up firewalls. It can be found at > http://freshmeat.net Thanks for the link. I used to to get set up and now I'm in the process of looking through the

Re: ipchains for the firewall challenged

2001-07-22 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:50:07PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I'm playing around with ipchains, but I'm just not getting the > example given in the IPCHAINS-HOWTO. It's based on a system that's > forwarding packets, but I'm not doing that. All I have is a single box > connected to the world with a

Re: ipchains for the firewall challenged

2001-07-22 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi all, > > I'm playing around with ipchains, but I'm just not getting the > example given in the IPCHAINS-HOWTO. It's based on a system that's > forwarding packets, but I'm not doing that.

ipchains for the firewall challenged

2001-07-22 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I'm playing around with ipchains, but I'm just not getting the example given in the IPCHAINS-HOWTO. It's based on a system that's forwarding packets, but I'm not doing that. All I have is a single box connected to the world with a cable modem connected to eth0. It doesn't seem to be that