Re: IPChains and firewall rules

[Darren Reed <darrenr () reed wattle id au>]

In some email I received from Simeon Johnston, sie wrote:
> I am setting up a firewall for a small company and am wondering what kind of
> rules to use with ipchains.  It is running on a SuperSPARC 10 and will not
> allow any access through to the internal network.  What I am wondering
> specifically is if I need any rules at all.  If the default input policy is
> to deny and I have turned off all open ports to the outside, what use is
> there in having rules to block nonexistent traffic?
> I have not really done this before so if I am wrong, please bring me to the
> Light.
...

Just to be sure, you are running Linux on the Sun SPARCStation 10 and not
Solaris ?  You don't mention this explicitly but it is significant - ipmasq
and ipchains are "linux only".

Darren

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