On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:39:35PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote: > On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Mark S wrote: > > > I'm going to try and set up a lan here at home with my linux box as a > > router/firewall. > > I've checked out a lot of ipmasq/ipchains howto's, but they're redhat > > biased. > > > > Does anybody have any good urls for debian friendly documents? > > Actually, I just used the ipchains howto. The only differences are > in the modules you want to load at boot time, which in Debian you just put > in /etc/modules. Then I installed the firewall script under /etc/rc2.d for > runlevel 2, and I was done. Other than that, ipchains is ipchains.
foremost, apt-get install ipmasq that'll USE iptables or ipchains or ipfwadm to set up rudimentary forwarding rules and firewall plugs base on your network setup. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP: Curious about DISK PARTITIONING schemes? That's a frequent topic at debian-user -- look for it in the archives at lists.debian.org or read Karsten's approach at http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html ...from [EMAIL PROTECTED]