Re: [LI] FireWall on Linux

[Subba Rao <subb3@xxxxxxx>]

On  0, Ravi Chander <ravi@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
> 

Compile a new kernel with ip filtering enabled. Then read the IPCHAINS-HOWTO.
That will help you a lot. Your gateway (Linux) will block any traffic you want to/from
the subnet. You can do lot of logging too, with ipchains.

Good luck.

Subba Rao
subb3@xxxxxxx
http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/
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