Re: [LI] FireWall on Linux

[Mannu Kalra <Mannu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would suggest reading the firewall howto. However, FYI there are many
freebies available for linux. What you need to do as a preliminary step is to
summarize your requirements & then take a look at one of the two different
approaches that are easily possible on Linux -
1. Masquerading / NAT
2. Proxy

First one can be achieved using ipfwadm/ipchains, second one can be achieved
by using squid/fwtk.


MANNU

Ravi Chander wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am settinng up a RH6.0 server to serve as a firewall to protect our
> sub-net. I have no concepts of Firewall and I would appreciate if somone
> could suggest what I should look for, what software to use (preferably
> downloadable from the web) and any other  experience that I could use
> and benefit from.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Best regards,
> Ravi.
>
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