RE: why isn't there a newer linux fw-howto

["Andy Burns" <parson () parson net>]

I have a similar setup at home, except i'm using the MS version of "Hack-Me"
(Proxy 2.0).
I'd love to learn linux and switch, but it scares me to death...  (the
unknown).  My unix level skills are greatly lacking.  I can and have install
a few different Unix based OS's, to include adding users, change rights and
the like, but that is where my ability stops...

Is this "RedHat" version easy enough for a beginner such as myself to do
what appears to be an advanced configuration issue? (i.e., firewall/proxy)

I supposed there must be a Linux for dummies out there.... I did install
Linux once from the SAM's book, and I still have it, but I hear it's much
better (and easier) since then (Late 1995).

[Then] I understood Linux to be a compilation of shared resources from
throughout the world of people who didn't want to deal with the pricy AT&T
Unix... may have my facts wrong though.

At any rate, any information/pointers in the right direction would be
greatly appreciated... except the ones from those who see themselves far
above my mental capacity and want me to take my non-Unix brain and leave the
bless-ed list... I think we've seen plenty of that here lately...  :)

Andy.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-firewall-wizards () nfr net
> [mailto:owner-firewall-wizards () nfr net]On Behalf Of Kevin Steves
> Sent: Sunday, September 27, 1998 2:24 PM
> To: Bárány Sándor
> Cc: firewall-wizards () nfr net
> Subject: Re: why isn't there a newer linux fw-howto
>
>
> On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Bárány Sándor wrote:
> : I am far from being a wiz, but I am wondering if the current linux fw
> : howto (from Nov 1996) is beeing actual any more. Nowadays every linux
> : distribution comes out with the ipfwadmin package, possibly with some
> : extra home-made config script embedded in the distribution's own startup
> : env. My (let me not say which one) seems beeing pretty buggy, and the
> : howto does not really help. The man file I have is also about two years
> : old.
> :
> : My config is a two-machine home net, cable modem-connected to the Net;
> : linux fw and a w95 box behind for my children. It should not be a big
> : problem, but the faq does not really help.
>
> I haven't looked at that howto in a while, but you might want to take a
> look at ipchains, which is the ipfw replacement in the 2.1 kernels. The
> ipchains howto is very good, and there is a patch to run ipchains in the
> 2.0 kernels (the patch is to 2.0.34 if I recall, but I have applied it
> to 2.0.36pre versions).  See
> http://www.adelaide.net.au/~rustcorp/ipfwchains/ipfwchains.html.