You only need to enable it on the PC thats connected to the internet . (Unless i you want multiple levels of firewalls ??)
check out the following site it has a mailing list for ipchains, i joined and occasionally have a read thru, its slowly starting to make sense to me , must be absorbing it somehow :) http://www.starshadow.com/mailman/listinfo/ipchains cheers ktb wrote: > I've read through the ipchains howto and the man page and the firewall howto > and I'm confused. My setup will have a firewall and two other computers > hooked together through a hub. I will access the web through dialup/squid. > I have Debian Slink running on the firewall and one of my other computers > also. These two I'm trying to get working together. I can ping and Telnet > just fine between the two. My question is do I have to have ipchains set up > on both computers? I am under the impression that I have to compile > ipchains into both computer's kernels by selecting the "firewall" options in > makeconfig. Or do I just set up and configure ipchains from within the > firewall computer? > Thanks, > kent > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null