Re: Redhat 8.0 networking/routing/security issue...

["Nick Warr" <nick () mobilia it>]

If you're up for doing the whole configuration yourself, there's plenty of
information available on thar interweb, and here too.

However, if you're interested in a quick and simple solution, something like
e-smith might be a good choice. http://www.e-smith.org. It's a
file/mail/router/firewall/gateway server, with enough security for the
average home user, and if you wish to go digging around in the guts, you
can. That way you can have protection, and take your time to study and
possibly build your own solution.

I'd say Comcast is full of it too, they just don't want to train their tech
support to deal with linux.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "nokio x0" <xj3wlzx () hotmail com>
To: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 6:51 PM
Subject: Redhat 8.0 networking/routing/security issue...


> Hi, i'm not sure if this is the right mailing list to post to or not. But
> i'm sure I will soon find out...
>
> Anyway. I'm fairly new with Linux networking and i'm a little stumped. I
> have three boxes, none have OS's yet, but i'm planning on one having
Windows
> XP Pro, and the other two with Redhat 8.0. My plan is to have one of the
> Redhat boxes set up kind of as a router(?) so my two computers other
> computers could share the same internet. Is this possible? and if so how
> would I go about doing this? Also how would I go about securing the redhat
> box for this kind of configuration? I have a cable modem with Comcast
@home
> internet. I'm not sure how to configure this under the Linux environment.
I
> have contacted Comcast but their support told me that I cannot use their
> internet service with Linux but I have heard from many other network gurus
> that they are full of it and it is totally possible. Any help would be
much
> appreciated. Thanks in advance...
>
> Thanks,
> nokio
>
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