* New HOWTO Article - Making a simple Linux Firewall

I wrote a quick checklist, how-to type of article describing how I
quickly make & manage firewalls based on Fedora Core 2. I am a
Windows guy, and the one thing that I won't do with windows is packet
filtering/mangling.

I had quite a bit of difficulty in figuring out how to do all of this,
since linux firewall how-to documents don't seem as good as all of the
OpenBSD firewall stuff I found via google.

Included are some scripts & rpm packages that allow you to monitor
firewall activity. I do all of this from a Windows workstation, of
course. Thank God for putty & filezilla.

http://www.castellan.net/linux_firew..._firewall.html

Hope this helps out other people in their quest to cut costs & improve
services to the end users.

NoNameHere wrote:
> I wrote a quick checklist, how-to type of article describing how I
> quickly make & manage firewalls based on Fedora Core 2. I am a
> Windows guy, and the one thing that I won't do with windows is packet
> filtering/mangling.

Because ?

> I had quite a bit of difficulty in figuring out how to do all of this,
> since linux firewall how-to documents don't seem as good as all of the
> OpenBSD firewall stuff I found via google.

Well, yes, that's because you will need to learn a bit about Linux
before you can confidently do /anything/ with it.

> Included are some scripts & rpm packages that allow you to monitor
> firewall activity. I do all of this from a Windows workstation, of
> course. Thank God for putty & filezilla.
>
> http://www.castellan.net/linux_firew..._firewall.html

As this piece mentions, you are *not too sure how secure this is*.

Esxcuse me while I laugh my arse off.

> Hope this helps out other people in their quest to cut costs & improve
> services to the end users.

I hope you will refrain from giving slanted and misrepresented
commercial advice from now on.

Castellan - what are you working for, anyway ?


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Jeroen Geilman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<bu7312-(E-Mail Removed)>...
> NoNameHere wrote:
> > I wrote a quick checklist, how-to type of article describing how I
> > quickly make & manage firewalls based on Fedora Core 2. I am a
> > Windows guy, and the one thing that I won't do with windows is packet
> > filtering/mangling.
>
> Because ?
Why do you care?

>
> > I had quite a bit of difficulty in figuring out how to do all of this,
> > since linux firewall how-to documents don't seem as good as all of the
> > OpenBSD firewall stuff I found via google.
>
> Well, yes, that's because you will need to learn a bit about Linux
> before you can confidently do /anything/ with it.
>

No - it is because no one has bothered to publish anything simple &
reasonable.

> > Included are some scripts & rpm packages that allow you to monitor
> > firewall activity. I do all of this from a Windows workstation, of
> > course. Thank God for putty & filezilla.
> >
> > http://www.castellan.net/linux_firew..._firewall.html
>
> As this piece mentions, you are *not too sure how secure this is*.
>
> Esxcuse me while I laugh my arse off.

Laugh away. If it isn't OpenBSD, I am not convinced of security.
Thus, the disclaimer. I mention BSD to people, they say "Huh?", but
when I mention Linux, their ears perk up due to the hype. This means
I am stuck installing Linux, not the OpenBSD that I prefer to use.

>
> > Hope this helps out other people in their quest to cut costs & improve
> > services to the end users.
>
> I hope you will refrain from giving slanted and misrepresented
> commercial advice from now on.
>
> Castellan - what are you working for, anyway ?

How is my advice slanted or misrepresented?