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Re: help req. firewalls??

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From: Stephen Schwetz
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 00:00
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IPFWADM is also very simple to set up if you only want a simple firewall




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Zebee Johnstone <zebee@zip.com.au> wrote in message
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>In aus.computers.linux on Wed, 04 Nov 1998 19:44:49 GMT
>Debbie Seltitz <dseltitz@*no*spam*dipix.com> wrote:
>>We are looking to set up a firewall on linux and I would like to get
>>some feedback from people who are alrready doing this.  How is it
>>working?  Do you have many problems?  I've also heard that there are
>>free versions of firewalls. Where would I find this information?  And
>>if they are not very reliable does anyone know of a good commercial
>>firewall to run on Linux?  Any help or information you can give me
>>will be greatly appreciated.
>
>See the TIS "FWTK - Firewall Tool Kit" from Trusted Information
>Systems - www.tis.com.  Search on fwtk or Firewall TOol Kit.
>
>As to how easy it is to set up, I have done two of them and
>found it easy to do following the documentation, but I can't
>say how easy it would be for anyone else.  Depends on how
>skilled you are in general concepts, what you know about mail
>and web and TCP/IP and DNS.  You don't need to know heaps
>but if you know nothing you won't get far.
>
>
>Whether you use a software solution or the ipfwadm packet filter
>depends on a number of things.  I preferred the software because
>oif the logging, if you don't need logging or password authentication
>then ipfwadm may be enough for you.
>
>Zebee
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From: "Stephen Schwetz" <darteng@aljan.com.au>
Subject: Re: help req. firewalls??
Date: 1998/11/05
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