Subject: Re: firewall
From: Andy Firman (lug@firman.us)
Date: Wed Jun 18 2003 - 15:52:39 AKDT
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:30:55AM -0800, Michael Gillson wrote:
>
> A friend wants me to help him set up a firewall/router. I have the
> RedHat 9 boxed set. We will have two network cards in the PC with one
> card
> going to the GCI cable modem and the other network card connecting to
> his private home network.
>
> I did this with help awhile ago with RedHat 7.2 and it works so well, I
> never look at it nor do I remember what I did.
>
> They want internet access from their private network via the
> firewall/router. All the private network PC's are Win98 or higher
> windows machines.
> Also, can the firewall/router be configured safely so he can control a
> windows PC behind the firewall?
>
>
> Any tips, hints, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
I highly recommend Shorewall.
Sometimes you can't learn or understand everything and
Shorewall is one of those pieces of software that
really brings you along and helps you understand
iptables quickly. Great FAQ's on the site as well.
I have been using it on a an old 100Mhz box in exactly the
same way you described for a year now. It is my little
print server (using CUPS) & router/firewall box connected
to a GCI cable modem with static IP. I have Windows and
Linux clients on the network anywhere from 3 - 15 boxes
depending on my projects/workload. Great little setup.
Give it a try!
Andy
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