[OLUG] ipchaining

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> I've read through the ipchains howto and the man page and the firewall howto
> and I'm confused.  My setup will have a firewall and two other computers
> hooked together through a hub.  I will access the web through dialup/squid.
> I have Debian Slink running on the firewall and one of my other computers
> also.  These two I'm trying to get working together.  I can ping and Telnet
> just fine between the two.  My question is do I have to have ipchains set up
> on both computers?  I am under the impression that I have to compile
> ipchains into both computer's kernels by selecting the "firewall" options in
> makeconfig.  Or do I just set up and configure ipchains from within the
> firewall computer?

IP Chains setup is needed only on the computer that's going to be doing
the actual firewalling.

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Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch at creighton.edu

"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein


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